Quotes Tagged "photography"

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

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.

Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado.

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

An image is simply an external memoir of one's life.

A Photographer's Poem To take a photograph is to learn new steps Like a toddler's first walk from start to end Visualize a dream, a paradigm, a theme It could be about anywhere, anyone, any moment or anything Let that sink in until your eyes see clearly What image you cease to create to preserve in dearly With a camera you take the picture in mind A photographer's mistake is to leave it behind Take it wherever a journey is to take place There will always be something that comes across your ways

In the world, where everyone is overexposed He always keeps their photograph in his wallet.

Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.

You, too, can observe the beauty of flowers and nature through the windows of your life if you are willing to open them.

All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Photographs are just light and time,

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground, olive trees; but three tenses dizzy my consciousness: my present, the time of Jesus, and that of the photographer, all this under the instance of 'reality' — and no longer through the elaborations of the text, whether fictional or poetic, which itself is never credible down to the root.