Photography Quotes

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

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

The paparazzi are nothing but dogs of war. (Said after Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash.)

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

My photographs don’t do me justice – they just look like me.

Twelve photographs that matter in a year is a good crop for any photographer.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there – even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

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 […]