My Favorite Quotes About Photography & Art
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.”
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
”When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!”
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
”Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes the past.”
“Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.”
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
“All the technique in the world doesn’t doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.”
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.”
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.”
“Actually, I’m not at all interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks!”
“My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.”
“Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.”
“The eye should learn to listen before it looks”
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
“Only photograph what you love.”
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
“Don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like.”
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observer, and my camera is my passport.”
“Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face.”
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
“The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
“Bad artists copy, good artists steal.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.”
-Pablo Picasso (The Blue Period, Paint It Black)
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
“Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.”
"The camera edits time, Photoshop edits space and I am their master."
