In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular… sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Photography Quotes
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ‘cast up’ in my time – this art by which even the ‘poor’ can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones.
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.
