Photography Quotes

"I've learned working with the negatives can make for better pictures" "A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy." "I don't normally take pictures with other people, because I have to be in the picture too. It's like, if I could take a picture of myself by myself, I'd be like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about." "My goal is to win a Super Bowl and my pictures are going to be around for a long time." "Contrast is what makes photography interesting" "Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem" "When people you’re shooting with know what they’re doing, I’m fond of saying, it’s not really work at all." "When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home." "I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures " "To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality." "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." "Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event." "It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart, and head." "In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject." "Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity." "I don't like to stop, I'm a living photo, I'm a walking movie, I am a cinema" "The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses." "In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense"