A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. — Robert Doisneau
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smee
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smeey
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. — Aaron Siskind
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. — George Eastman
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. — Aaron Siskind
A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. — Dorothea Lange
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams
Short Beautiful Photography Quotes
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. — Alberto Korda
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. — Paul Strand
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. — Marc Riboud
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession. — Alfred Stieglitz
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. — Alfred Stieglitz
A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent. — Eugene Atget
Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul. — Inge Morath
Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. — Alexander Rodchenko
A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. — Guy Le Querrec
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. — Jean-Luc Godard
Beautiful Photography Image Quotes
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Inspirational Beautiful Photography Quotes
The world is full of beauty, you are the greatest proof of this. — Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. — Jay Maisel
The players are writing a beautiful page of the club’s history and also of French football history. — Didier Deschamps
I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas. — Will Gompertz
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other. — Peter Schjeldahl
Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.
I love Rihanna. She's such a beauty! — Amanda Bynes
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up. — Keira Knightley
I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man. — Jason Reeves
I always say the beauty is in the mix. — Nancy Pelosi
Most Beautiful Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile. — Bob Marley
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — Sigmund Freud
The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special — Bob Marley
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. — Adrian Frutiger
İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most beautiful place of the world. — Gerard De Nerval
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life. — Mark Twain
Great Photography Quotes
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life. — Joan Miro
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed. — Anne Geddes
Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future — Sally Mann
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. — Andy Warhol
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. — Henri CartierBresson
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories. — Theodore Levitt
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams
Good Photography Quotes
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either. — Galen Rowell
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time. — Robert Doisneau
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture. — Eddie Adams
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person. — Helmut Newton
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. — David Bailey
Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece. — Cindy Sherman
There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop — Tyra Banks
There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste — Helmut Newton
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. — Robert Frank
Beautiful Images Quotes
To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly. — Marilyn Monroe
I know my curves are sexy and I want everyone else to know that theirs are too. There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt. — Ashley Graham
In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about. — Louise Bourgeois
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal
Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine. — Drake
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. — Alan Cohen
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power. — Kerry James Marshall
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. — Tadao Ando
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father. — James Dobson
If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business. — Gail Dines
Inspirational Photography Quotes
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. — Trent Parke
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld
The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel passionate and connected to the image. — Peter Lik
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. — Walt Whitman
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. — William Klein
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. — Irving Penn
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. — John Ruskin
My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back. — Nan Goldin
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear. — Gregory Crewdson
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful. — Alex Grey
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper. — Helena Christensen
Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value. — Rabindranath Tagore
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture. — Piet Mondrian
My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense. — Gregory Crewdson
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. — Jeffrey Veen
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art Photography Quotes
A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter
Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence. — Eadweard Muybridge
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. — Ansel Adams
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. — Helmut Newton
Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography. — El Lissitzky
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
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. — Elliott Erwitt
I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art. — Alexander Rodchenko
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. — Irving Penn
Photography Quotes
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do. — Sally Mann
The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset. — Catherine Opie
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities. — Michael Kenna
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough. — William Eggleston
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. — Vincent Van Gogh
If you want to be a photographer, first leave home — Steve McCurry
What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning. — David Doubilet
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today. — William Eggleston
Photography Love Quotes
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. — Sam Haskins
I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography. — Scoot McNairy
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them. — Bruce Gilden
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death. — Nobuyoshi Araki
Reluctant as I am to regard myself as a style icon, I would love to think I could inspire older women to make the most of themselves. — Mary Berry
I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story. — Seamus McGarvey
Photography is a love affair with life. — Burk Uzzle
I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity. — Horst P. Horst
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that. — Auguste Rodin
The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it’s unlimited capacity, in theory. — Eric Yuan
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man. — Edward Steichen
I have a deep respect and love for these tiny humans, and I hope to convey in my images a measure of the beauty that exists in all children. — Anne Geddes
You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me. — Sophia Bush
What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty of the instant and of these surprising points of view that appear for a brief moment and never return; those are what make photography an art. — Raoul Hausmann
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to look at the thing, you're supposed to look through it. It's a window. — John Szarkowski
If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully, if it synthesizes your feelings toward someone whose work has imprinted itself on your mind--if you see a photograph and say, 'Yes, this is the person,' with a little new insight--that is a beautiful experience. — Yousuf Karsh
For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality — Daido Moriyama
At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The tall spires near the canyon's top and the walls of the canyon up there look as if God had reached out and swiped a brush of golden paint across them, gilding these rocks in the bright glow of the setting sun. — Barry Goldwater
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium. — Anton Yelchin
My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty. — Julia Margaret Cameron
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty. — Alvin Langdon Coburn
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre. — Brassai
The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized. — Richard M. Eyre
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another. — Taryn Simon
There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world. — Luc Delahaye
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty. — George A Tice
To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world. — Richard Misrach
Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter. — Alain de Botton
For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities. — Wynn Bullock
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape. — Diane Arbus
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. — John Loengard
Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something else. — Frederick H. Evans
[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful moment. From then on I started living with her, asking her from time to time if she was alright, if she was pleased with me. But these things are far greater than photography, and I probably shouldn't be speaking about them. — Mario Giacomelli
The Latin American photographer has the possibility, and the means, for naming the things of our world, for demonstrating that there is another kind of beauty, that the faces of the First World are not the only ones. These Indian, black, plundered white and mestizo faces are the first element defining the demographic content of our photography. — Edmundo Desnoes
Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography. — Bun B
[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful! — Walter Benjamin
There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well. — Lauren Hutton
The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera — Daniel J. Boorstin
I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special. — Jamel Shabazz
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