Best photography & beautiful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.”

Ifs Looks Mean Persons Able Beautiful Humanity Turns Seeing Photography Ugly

Author:Zana Briski

“French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris”

“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.”

People Thinking Want Looks Stories Beautiful Photography Shots Love Story Innovative Lighting Cinematography Enticing Cinematographers

Author:Seamus McGarvey

“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?”

Ifs Beautiful Creativity Expression Photography Photographer Impression Photography And Light

Author:Ernst Haas

“Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.”

I Can Ideas Beautiful Photography Finals Photographer Contact Print Sheets Consumed

Author:John Sexton

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

Way Mean Art Reality Beautiful Photography Unique Genuine Beautiful Art

Author:Daido Moriyama

“[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!”

Beautiful Results Modern Fronts Photography Rivers Subtle Factories Electric Incapable Cables Rubbish Dams Tenements

Book:Understanding Brecht (New Edition)

Source: Understanding Brecht (New Edition)

“There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.”

World Self Beautiful Photography Something Beautiful Reunited

Author:Luc Delahaye

“[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.”

Ifs Moments Beautiful Mother Greater Months Photography Died Asking Lips Alright Mother Died Beautiful Moments

Author:Mario Giacomelli

“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.”

Beautiful Ability Fiction Quality Photography Consequence Compelling Severe Ambiguity Blur Misused

Author:Taryn Simon

“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.”

People Thinking Beautiful Used Felt Voice Struggle Special Photography

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”

World Has Beens Beautiful Roles Successful Photography Standards Cameras Photograph

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“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.”

Knows Children Able Beautiful Turns Three Father Parent Acting Behinds Careers Saws Photography Percent Hobbies Supportive Exceptional Only Child Great Friend

Author:Sophia Bush

“The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed”

Should Beautiful Interesting Photography Photographer Photograph Insightful

Author:Garry Winogrand

“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.”

Ifs Knows Mind Littles Persons Feelings Beautiful Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Insight Portraits Beautiful Experiences

Author:Yousuf Karsh

“It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for the picture. The wrong light, the wrong background, time and so on. Just don't do it, not matter how beautiful the subject is.”

Thinking Matter Light Would Be Beautiful Interest Seeing Subjects Photography Photographer Photograph Backgrounds Rejecting

Author:Andreas Feininger

“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.”

Looks Beautiful Materials Photography Window Photograph Oil Canvas Ivory Tapestry Bronze

Author:John Szarkowski

“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.”

Beautiful Photography Valuable Innocence Purity Spoilt Purity And Innocence

Book:Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography

Source: Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography

“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.”

May Beautiful Subjects Involved Photography Absence Excitement Beautiful Picture

Author:Brassai

“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.”

Thinking Wells Looks Littles Made Reason Beautiful Interest Strange Photography Being True Copies Incomplete Vases

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“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.”

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Author:Gregory Crewdson

“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.”

Firsts Enough Beautiful Fear Beauty Anxiety Photography Strive Edges Isolation Conveying American Landscape

Author:Gregory Crewdson

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