77 Quotes About Photography

A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings. Abhijit Naskar

When posing for a photograph, spinsters should avoid looking desperate or deprived. A serene smile will show that your circumstances are by choice and not for lack of beauty or character. -Miss Gertrude Hasslebrink, 1878 Margaret Brownley

All my images are self-portraits, even when I'm not in them. Nuno Roque

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. Unknown

Not every artistic person should have to be a photographer, but every photographer should be artistic. Pradeepa Pandiyan

Photography is like exploring a new dimension, only I can go there but I can show you where I've been. Destin Sparks

Some days you just get lucky… Other days you wait patiently for luck to happen Destin Sparks

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just have to open our eyes. Nina Hrusa

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is! Mehmet Murat Ildan

My selfie my life! Ken Poirot

When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently! Mehmet Murat Ildan

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. Amit Kalantri

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical. Amit Kalantri

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems. Amit Kalantri

The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery. Kilroy J. Oldster

The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker. VDEXTERS

The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past. Simon Mawer

The artistic creation of the poet, painter, photographer, and writer is a reflection of the artist’s inner world. The agenda of consciousness that spurs all forms of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but to portray its inward significance to the creator. A great poem, painting, photograph, and written composition fully express what the creator feels, in the deepest sense, about the distinctively depicted image that captured their imagination. Kilroy J. Oldster

Capture every moments of your life. Lailah Gifty Akita

If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed. Deeksha Mittal

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ever wondered why front camera of cellphones makes people look better while the rear camera makes them look how they are? Because when you click picture using front camera, you see yourself on screen, and that's how you should look at yourself, a better version of yourself. Whereas, the rear camera shows how other's see you. With your flaws and qualities. No added layer to hide or enhance your ownself. This is how you should learn to overcome your flaws and better your qualities. Crestless Wave

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder–and much more needful–to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity of people that, but for their birth into a place and circumstance different from our own, are just like ourselves. I want my images to tell the story of those people and to move us beyond pity to justice and mercy. David DuChemin

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past. David DuChemin

I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window. Richard Wentworth

No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story! Mehmet Murat Ildan

My life my selfie! Ken Poirot

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch! Mehmet Murat Ildan

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment! Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer! Mehmet Murat Ildan

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken! Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past! Mehmet Murat Ildan

A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself! Mehmet Murat Ildan

We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video). Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Photobomb me at your own risk! Ken Poirot

Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it. Sahara Sanders

The subject, timing and light makes a photograph, great. Greater, is the photographer when he senses these are right. Kowtham Kumar K

Knowing the right timings, good photographs. Learning from bad timings, better photographs. Kowtham Kumar K

I believe all photographers want to be remembered for their images. They reflect a piece of their soul. Christopher Paul Flateau

Photography is my other kind of music. Romi Florea

Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child. Christopher Paul Flateau

To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world. I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images. Viktor Tatarczuk

The horizon is the fine line between golden hour and blue hour. Destin Sparks

Photographs shape the past in our own image. Chloe Thurlow

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul. Marius Vieth

If you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work Betty Poluk

Do not take pictures to please the public, the photo should be spontaneous and free Betty Poluk

Remember... the picture should tell a story in itself, and should have a spontaneous approach Betty Poluk

She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them. Tommy Wallach

Nature is a picture waiting to be taken. Katja Michael

Photographers are the history makers, because every picture is a moment which gone fore ever and can not be re shoot.Ӊۥ Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer Unknown

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art Farid F. Ibrahim

I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there. Anthony Farrimond

In the context of photography , there was a luck. But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready. Adithya Zen

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed. Deeksha Mittal

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us. A balance must be established between these two worlds–the one inside us and the one outside us. Henri CartierBresson

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize–simultaneously and within a fraction of a second–both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis. . Henri CartierBresson

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes forever the precise and transitory instant. We photographers deal in things that are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished, there is no contrivance on earth that can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. The writer has time to reflect. He can accept and reject, accept again; and before committing his thoughts to paper he is able to tie the several relevant elements together. There is also a period when his brain "forgets, " and his subconscious works on classifying his thoughts. But for photographers, what has gone is gone forever. . Henri CartierBresson

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. Henri CartierBresson

You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange ('Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life' by Milton Meltzer) Milton Meltzer

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures. Susan Sontag

A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook. An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook. A foolgrapher show off his camera and how he holds it, on facebook. Junior Ming

The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it. David DuChemin

Also, Willie, I dig telling the truth. Words can be twisted but a photo never lies. Sutton laughs. What’s funny? Photographer says. Nothing. Except–that’s pure horseshit kid. I can’t think of anything that lies more than a photo. In fact every photo is a dirty stinking lie because it’s a frozen moment–and time can’t be frozen. Some of the biggest lies I’ve ever run across have been photos. Some of them were of me. . J.R. Moehringer