Nice Quotes on Photography

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” 
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....” 
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” 
― Ansel Adams

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” 
― Ansel Adams

 “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” 
― Karl Lagerfeld

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” 
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.” 
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

 “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” 
― Ansel Adams

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” 
― Robert Frank

 “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” 
― Ansel Adams

 “There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.” 
― Abraham Lincoln

 “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!” 
― Ted Grant

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” 
― Diane Arbus