Photography Quotes

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

David Doubilet
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Ansel Adams

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

Errol Morris
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Ansel Adams
[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

Claude Levi-Strauss
- World
- Vision
- Photography
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Teju Cole
Technique undoubtedly helps make photography magical, but I prefer to work with atmosphere. I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... but once you've perfected something you have to start searching for a new toy. I would rather search for a new model or location.

Ellen von Unwerth
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

William J. Mitchell
- Language
- Photography