Photography Quotes

“A photograph is a biography of a moment.”

“It shows an image that could only have been produced photographically.”

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”

“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”

“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.”

“In photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.”

“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.”

“The step from the age of Typographic Man to the age of Graphic Man was taken with the invention of photography.”

“Life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference and it is important to see what is invisible to others.”

“There is a reality — so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. That's what I'm trying to get down in photography.”

“World History of Photography From The History of Art.”

“Evidentiary uses of photographic images are usually enlisted in the service of some kind of action-to monitor, control, and possibly intervene.”

“Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.”

“Photography, if practiced with high seriousness, is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere...”

“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.”

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.”

“Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression.”

“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. [It is] a major force in explaining man to man.”

“The photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise. The movie stars and matinee idols are put in the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy.”

“The photograph has reversed the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ... The world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other medium.”