Photographer Quotes

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was.

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

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.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Keep it simple.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.