Photography Quotes - Page 5

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image.

One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.

Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

We live in a time of the greatest precision and of maximum contrasts: photomontage offers us a means to express this. It shows ideas: photography shows us objects.

I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would give them yellow roses. And if they got too loud, I would just put them some place quiet. Put them in the oven. And I would kiss them every day, and tell them you don't have to be anybody, because I would know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.