Photography Quotes - Page 2

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

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.