Photography Quotes

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.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That […]

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.

“A daguerreotype likeness, do you mean?” asked Phoebe, with less reserve; for, in spite of prejudice, her own youthfulness sprang forward to meet his. “I don’t much like pictures of that sort – they are so hard and stern; besides dodging away from the eye, and trying to escape altogether. They are conscious of looking […]