Photography Quotes
Photography Quote of the day
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
In a few years, it is very likely that this series will be considered a milestone in the history of Singapore photography.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.
By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.
In the context of photography, there was a luck.But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.
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.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.
Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.
Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.
When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.
Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?
If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Be in love with the moments of your life.
when they asked me : why you still you use this old photo?my answer : photo? it's not a simple photo, it's a cover of a book that i can remember his story, page by page.
The greatest moments are right in front of you.
When you press the shutter, time won't see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment... and thats the best Farewell for that moment.
Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.
