Home / Topics / Photography Quotes

Photography Quotes

Browse 3249 quotes about Photography.

Photography Quotes

“The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.”

Real Use Light Materials Keys Photography Essence Cameras Sensitive Capture Formation

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.”

Ifs Should May Imagination Quality Events Objects Photography Essence Reports Journalistic

Book:New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

Source: New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

“I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.”

Believe I Believe Black White Color Photography Essence Black And White Deviance

Author:Sarah Moon

“In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.”

Should Term Objects Photography Essence

Author:Albert Renger-Patzsch

“Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!”

Photography Essence Patience Photographer Photograph

Author:Abhijeet Sawant

“To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.”

Photography Essence Photographer Crafts Of Context

Author:John Szarkowski

“For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe.”

“To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.”

Men Art Photography Highest Essence Visible Exposure

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.”

Want Giving Feels Helping Light Subjects Photography Aspect Essence Cameras Photographer Celebrate Witness Revelations Light Up

Author:Joyce Tenneson