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Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.
Oct 2, 2025
Wherever there is light, one can photograph.
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
I didn't choose photography. Photography chose me.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed.
The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.
Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
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.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
The eye should learn to listen before it looks.
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul!
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
Light makes photography. Embrace light.
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.