Photography Quotes

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second. (Jean-Luc Godard)
Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. View quote
Berenice Abbott
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. View quote
Edward Steichen
The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell. View quote
Edvard Munch
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography helps people to see. View quote
Berenice Abbott
That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. (Ansel Adams)
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. View quote
Imogen Cunningham
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
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. View quote
Elliott Erwitt
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. View quote
Aaron Siskind
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography. View quote
Bill Wyman
Contrast is what makes photography interesting. View quote
Conrad Hall
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. View quote
Galen Rowell
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. View quote
Parker Stevenson
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. View quote
Sydney Pollack
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. (Sarah Sutton)
T. V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress. View quote
Banksy
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely! View quote
David Hockney
The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography, it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera. View quote
László Moholy-Nagy