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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
Sep 28, 2025
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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