Explore Quotes on Photography

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.