The best Quotes and Sayings about Photography

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Life is like a good black and white photograph, there's black, there's white, and lots of shades in between.

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Pictures can be twisted and used against you and haunt you forever.

Photography is magic, it's a time capsule. It's something that keeps that moment alive.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Through the lens is how the world makes sense to me.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

The photographer, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures, but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

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

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can.

I believe that a photographer should point her lens outward, toward the world. So you can try and understand it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

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

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Everything is a picture waiting to be taken...