'Photography' Quotes

Photography quotes have played a significant role in shaping the way we view and understand the art of photography. From famous photographers to influential figures, these quotes have inspired and influenced individuals and society as a whole. They have captured the essence of photography, its power to freeze a moment in time, and its ability to evoke emotions and tell stories. These quotes have also shed light on the technical and creative aspects of photography, encouraging people to explore and experiment with this medium. From Ansel Adams to Henri Cartier-Bresson, photography quotes continue to resonate and motivate people, reminding us of the profound impact this art form has on our lives.Read Less

526 Striking 'Photography' Quotations and Sayings

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Art, Photography, 0

- Jean-Marc Bustamante

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Frederick Sommer, Art, Photography, Reality, 0

- Frederick Sommer

Photographer

· USA

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Art, Photography, 0

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Playwright

· Switzerland

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Friedrich Nietzsche, Art, Photography, 0

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher

· Germany

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mehmet Murat Ildan, Art, Past, Photography, 0

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

Playwright and novelist

· Turkey

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lisette Model, Art, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Lisette Model

However fake the subject, once photographed, it’s as good as real. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Art, Photography, 0

- Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography is truth…and cinema is truth 24 times a second. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jean-Luc Godard, Inspiration, Photography, 0

- Jean-Luc Godard

Filmmaker

· France

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jean-Luc Godard, Faces, Photography, Soul, 0

- Jean-Luc Godard

Filmmaker

· France

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jean-Luc Godard, Color, Photography, 0

- Jean-Luc Godard

Filmmaker

· France

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeff Bridges, Photography, 0

- Jeff Bridges

Actor

· USA

Photography

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley’s is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jeffrey Kluger, Moments, Photography, 0

- Jeffrey Kluger

Journalist

· USA

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people… the center of my photography. Feraz Zeid, January 18, 2024, Jerome Liebling, Everyday, Photography, 0

- Jerome Liebling

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, William J. Mitchell, Language, Photography, 0

- William J. Mitchell

It’s up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, Frans Lanting, Giving, Photography, Voice, 0

- Frans Lanting

Photographer

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024, Fred Picker, Photograph, Photography, Practice, 0

- Fred Picker

Author

· USA

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Frederick Sommer, Photography, Reality, Stones, 0

- Frederick Sommer

Photographer

· USA

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Frederick Sommer, Ideas, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Frederick Sommer

Photographer

· USA

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Frederick Sommer, Photography, 0

- Frederick Sommer

Photographer

· USA

Photography

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Frederick Sommer, Conditions, Photography, Privileged, 0

- Frederick Sommer

Photographer

· USA

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Frederick Sommer, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Frederick Sommer

Photographer

· USA

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Freeman Patterson, Photography, 0

- Freeman Patterson

Photographer

· Canada

Photography

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Freeman Patterson, Cameras, Photography, 0

- Freeman Patterson

Photographer

· Canada

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Galen Rowell, Environmental, Photography, Roles, 0

- Galen Rowell

Photographer

· USA

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Important, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Beautiful, Interesting, Photography, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Photography, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

Photography

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Photographer, Photography, Saws, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

The photo is a thing in itself. And that’s what still photography is all about. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Garry Winogrand, Photographer, Photography, 0

- Garry Winogrand

Photographer

· USA

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Photography, 0

- Mason Cooley

Professor

· USA

Photography

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Massimo Vitali, Photography, Rivers, Streams, 0

- Massimo Vitali

Photographer

· Italy

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Matthew Modine, Light, Negative, Photography, 0

- Matthew Modine

Actor

· USA

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It’s wholly my own expressions. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, Mia Wasikowska, Expression, Photography, 0

- Mia Wasikowska

Actress

· Australia

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lewis Baltz, Distance, Photography, 0

- Lewis Baltz

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lewis Carroll, Photography, 0

- Lewis Carroll

Author

· England

Photography

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lewis Hine, Insightful, Photography, 0

- Lewis Hine

Photographer

· USA

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Linda McCartney, Photography, 0

- Linda McCartney

Photographer

· USA

Photography

One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lisa Kristine, Advantage, Language, Photography, 0

- Lisa Kristine

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Luc Delahaye, Beautiful, Photography, Self, 0

- Luc Delahaye

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Lynsey Addario, Photography, 0

- Lynsey Addario

Photojournalist

· USA

Photography

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, W. Eugene Smith, Cameras, Photography, Travel, 0

- W. Eugene Smith

Photojournalist

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, W. Eugene Smith, Photography, Purpose, 0

- W. Eugene Smith

Photojournalist

I’ve never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, W. Eugene Smith, Emotional, Photography, 0

- W. Eugene Smith

Photojournalist

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Walker Evans, Character, Personality, Photography, 0

- Walker Evans

Photographer

· USA

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Bernard Shaw, Maturity, Photography, 0

- George Bernard Shaw

Playwright

· Ireland

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024, George Bernard Shaw, Photography, Ridiculous, 0

- George Bernard Shaw

Playwright

· Ireland

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Walter Benjamin, Cameras, Photography, 0

- Walter Benjamin

Philosopher and cultural critic

· Germany

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024, Walter Sickert, Alcohol, Photography, 0

- Walter Sickert

Painter

· England

'Photography' Quotes

526 Striking 'Photography' Quotations and Sayings

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. Explain

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.

It is a tie between men to have read the same book.

One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.

Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

People are more what they hide than what they show.

ENERGY RIGHTLY APPLIED CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.

Redd shed caution like an outgrown skin.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone

We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.

I’d rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings

Moderation, the noblest gift of heaven.

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

'Photography' Quotes

526 Striking 'Photography' Quotations and Sayings

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