Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look at something, you can’t change it. First you have to look at it, then you have a chance to understand it and can change it.
– Lynn Johnston
When you’re shy, a camera becomes an entry into life. It was a kind of shield I could hide my shyness behind, and it allowed me to become an active observer rather than a passive one.
– Lynn Johnston
A picture is worth a thousand words. But dollars would be better.
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
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
– Ansel Adams
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – and often the supreme disappointment.
– Ansel Adams
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
– Ansel Adams
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
– Ansel Adams
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
– Ansel Adams
A camera is a “Save” button for the mind’s eye.
– Roger Kingston
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.”
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
– Ansel Adams
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
– Ansel Adams
Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.
Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
– David Alan Harvey
Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
– Elliott Erwitt
I am not a photographer , I am a canon owner !!!
– Walaa WalkademAgmal
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
– Diane Arbus
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
– Brigitte Bardot
Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer.
– Walter De Mulder
Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
– Alfred Stieglitz
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.
– Yann Arthus Bertrand
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
– Salman Rushdie
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
– Mahatma Gandhi
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
– Dorothea Lange
There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.
– Abraham Lincoln
A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.
– Eudora Welty
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
– Diane Arbus
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
– Karl Lagerfeld
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.