Quotes on Photography And Film

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.