1. Photography Quotes
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm
camera. -W. Eugene Smith
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. -Eudora Welty
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. -Susan Sontag
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad
photograph — only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. Susan Sontag
It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime,
trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a
couple of hours. -James Lalropui Keivo
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a
moment. -Linda McCartney
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography
are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. -Ernst Haas
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes.
But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! Ted Gran
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn’t answer all the
questions and it leaves something to be desired. -Greg Gorman
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the
past, but the one who invents it. -Susan Sontag
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about
everything. -John Steinbeck
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you
know. -Diane Arbus

2. The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the
photograph isn’t what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography
is organised visual lying. -Terence Donovan
A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there–even if you
put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three
seconds, snatched from eternity. -Robert Doisneau
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. Ambrose Bierce
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When
images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. -Ansel Adams
No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket
full of unexposed film. -Robert Adams
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I’d do it every time. - Robert
Doisneau
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. - David Alan
Harvey
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. - Ansel
Adams
It’s amazing how you can create your own little world in the camera. Trevor Dayley
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in
other ways – they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what
the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a
photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is
looking at it. -John Berger
A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into. -Ansel Adams

3. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. Andy Warhol
It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another
thing to make a portrait of who they are. -Paul Caponigro
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of
technology. -Ken Rockwell
=Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. -Rene
Magritte
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated. August Sander
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I
photograph. -Richard Avedon
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world
instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a
photograph. -Robert Heinecken
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of
embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a
lifetime of pleasure. -Tony Benn
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I
see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced.
The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. -Sam Abell
A photograph that has not been shared or at least printed is almost an
unexistent photograph, is almost an untaken picture.
When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things. Wynn Bullock

4. 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. -Aaron Siskind