Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. G. Wells

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe...

Jean-Francois Lyotard

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Gia Coppola

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

Ian Mcewan

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

Erica Jong

The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

Eric Clapton

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

Jason Sudeikis

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

Jason Sudeikis

One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

Eugene Delacroix

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Eugene Delacroix

[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

Italo Calvino

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

Irving Penn

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Irving Penn

Working on photography is working on oneself.

Irving Penn

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Irving Penn

Photographing a cake can be art.

Jack Kerouac

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days...

Isabel Allende

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

Hanneli Mustaparta

I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

Greg Gorman

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

Graeme Le Saux

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

Graeme Le Saux

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Graeme Le Saux

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

Graeme Le Saux

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Harry Callahan

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

Harry Callahan

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

Harry Callahan

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

Harry Callahan

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Harry Callahan

A picture is like a prayer.

Harry Callahan

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Harry Callahan

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

Harry Callahan

I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Harry Callahan

I think I came alive when I started photography.

Harry Callahan

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.