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.

Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

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

Karl Heiner

Life

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.

Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 1

Bullying

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

Lenny Kravitz

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

Andy Warhol

Art Pictures

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

Brigitte Bardot

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

Zion Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 9

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

Emile Zola

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.

Peter Lindbergh

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

Diane Arbus

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

Yousuf Karsh

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

Pablo Picasso

Drawing Mirrors

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

John Sexton

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

David Nicholls in One Day

Wise Sayings

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

John Sexton (Photographer)

Trash & Garbage

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

Tessa in The In Between

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

Ansel Adams

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

Ansel Adams

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

Christopher Nolan

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

David Bailey

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

David Bailey

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

Yousuf Karsh

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Todd Phillips

Everything is a picture waiting to be taken...

Maxine Caulfield in Life is Strange

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For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.

Cath Crowley in Graffiti Moon

Art Pictures

Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

Gabe Newell

Photoshop

Will you take off your shirt...- f-k! Seriously? It's like you're Photoshopped!

Hannah in Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Photoshop

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Yousuf Karsh

Character Darkness

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

David Bailey

Motivation Positive Quotes

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

Because as soon as it's over, that's one more piece of the past I won't be able to get rid of

Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

Past

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The truth can free you, if you let it.

Hannah Baker in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

Truth

I think sometimes we aren't keeping secrets to hide from other people. I think sometimes we're keeping them to protect those people.

Tony Padilla in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

Secrets Protection

Rose always used to tell me that keeping quiet when someone's hurt you isn't kind, it's stupid. I might be useless, and I might be slow... but I'm not stupid!

Nemunas in Epic Seven

Bullying

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Lenny Kravitz

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Andy Warhol

Opposites

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

Art

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

Age

Because you can't choose who you love. Your person is your person, and that is undeniable.

Zion Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 9

Marcus: "My bike. It's gone. She took it."
Max: "So that's like Grand Theft Auto. Or Grand Theft Bike."

Maxine Baker in Ginny & Georgia - Season 2 Episode 1

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

Emile Zola

Art

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Peter Lindbergh

Fashion

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Diane Arbus

Love

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