Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is once. Forever.
Of course it's all luck.
Human faces are such a world!
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
Give me inspiration over information.
We cannot develop and print a memory.
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.
One eye looks within, the other eye looks without.
Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.
In every photographer there is something of a stroller.
In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.
It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.
It's wonderful to be famous as long as you remain unknown.
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
We must respect the atmosphere which surrounds the human being
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.
Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.
There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.
The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.
I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.
Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.
Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set.
The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)
Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.
Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.