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“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.”

Soul Pieces Photography Silent Photograph Deceiving Freezing

Book:Of Love and Shadows: A Novel

Source: Of Love and Shadows: A Novel

“He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.”

Soul Photography Mediums Generous Dedicated

Author:John Sexton

“Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people's life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.”

People Has Beens Soul Facts Light Jesus Photography Photographer Exposing

Author:Francis Bacon

“Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.”

Littles Art Soul Today Brain Break Pure Photography Definitions Vacation Vague

Author:Ernst Haas

“I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.”

Believe Soul I Believe Practice Photography Photograph Mediums Theme Subtle Variation

Author:Ralph Gibson

“There was as big a reaction after the revelations about Assad's chemical weapons. Nevertheless, that photograph did strike a singular chord. Which leads us to a larger fact: we don't understand why certain photographs create such an upheaval in one's soul. You look at them and go, "Oh my gosh." And that doesn't happen with television. It's unique to photography. Photographs are unique in that they are a frame abstracted out of reality, out of, in this case, a civil war. A single event can carry so much weight. And that is extraordinary.”

War Soul Reality Photography Unique Extraordinary Photograph Civil War Revelations Oh My Gosh

Author:Stuart Franklin

“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”

Doe Art Soul Found Alive Photography Cameras Photograph

Book:Ansel Adams: photographs

Source: Ansel Adams: photographs

“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”

Humans Persons Doe Art Made Soul Matter Eye Artist Voice Doubt Wall Photography Art Is Photographer Oil Resistance Mediums Made It What Matters Ignored Beholder Eye Of The Beholder

Author:Seth Godin

“When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!”

People Soul Black White Color Photography Clothes Photographer Photograph Black And White Photography By Photographers Inspirational Photography Black White Photo Shoots Great Photography Street Photography Black And White Photography Color Photography

Author:Ted Grant

“When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.”

Soul Faces Behinds Photography Photograph

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.”

People Looks Persons Soul Moments Faces Essentials Photography Grounded Peeking

Author:Steve McCurry

“I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.”

People Thinking Important Soul Honest Photography Direct Insightful

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.”

Men Wells Soul Whole Prayer Taken Greatness Duty Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Features Embodiment

Book:Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life

Source: Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life

“There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.”

Soul Too Much Photography Photographer Your Soul

Author:Ruth Bernhard

“The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.”

Firsts Humans Soul Body Photography Mirrors Human Body

Author:Auguste Rodin