#Photography Quotes

“Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.”

“Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.”

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.”

“More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.”

“With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.”

“Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.”

“The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.”

“Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.”

“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”

“My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.”

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.”

“Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.”

“Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.”

“Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you”

“Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”

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

“I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.”

“Every picture of you is when you were younger.”

“Why are there no "during" pictures?”

“One time a guy handed me a picture. He said, 'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture is of you when you were younger. 'Here's a picture of me when I'm older.' 'You son of bit, how'd you pull that off Let me see that camera. What's it look like'”

“The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.”

“... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.”

“When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best”

“A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.”

“A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.”

“Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.”

“Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.”

“A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.”

“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”

“The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.”

“What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.”

“We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.”

“I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.”

“Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.”

“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.”

“Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.”

“Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?”

“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.”