If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
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.
I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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