Photography Quotes

I loved the way a photo could capture a moment... before it was gone.

It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and… all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone… But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so… the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

Every photograph makes a promise, and the promise is never kept. And if the promise is sex — then you really have something.

A camera is a mechanical device which records a moment in time, but not what the moment means or the emotions that it evokes. Whereas a painting, however imperfect it may be, is an expression of feeling. An expression of love. Not just a copy of something...

— l blinked.
— Well, you're lucky. l'm blind.

When you take a photograph what you do is freeze something that is actually alive. To do this property you need, more than anything, to believe in life.

— I'm sorry, I'm nervous. I've never done anything like this.
— There's nothing to be nervous about. You're in Paris, the Tuileries. You've got balloons. There's a sudden shower. You're very happy.
— Why am I so happy?
— Because I say you are.