Emotion Photography Quotes

#1. The final battle against intolerance is to be fought
not in the chambers of any legislature
but in the hearts of men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. God can dream a bigger dream for you then you could ever dream for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Garry Winogrand

#4. I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

Jack Kemp

#5. I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#6. A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

Duane Michals

#7. I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!

P.C. Cast

#8. Good pictures. Tragedy and violence certainly make powerful images. It is what we get paid for.But there is a price extracted with every such frame: some of the emotion, the vulnerability, the empathy that makes us human, is lost every time the shutter is released.

Greg Marinovich

#9. You can't erase me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

Christopher Anderson

#11. The truth is that you have to fight your way through brutal, ugly realities in order to find that moment of clarity, that one slant of light or shift in emotion that yields unexpected art. That's just as true for life as it is for crime scene photography.

Maggie Ybarra

#12. Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Henry Ward Beecher

#13. 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.

Richard Avedon

#14. [Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.

Sarah Moon

#15. Schopenhauer and Spinoza distilled, condensed, and funneled through the pupil, along the optic nerve, and directly into our occipital lobes. I'd love to be able to eat with my eyes - I'm

Irvin D. Yalom

#16. My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

Eliot Porter

#17. The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

Eli Siegel

#18. Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

Berenice Abbott

#19. It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

Alexey Brodovitch

#20. My downfall emotionally is musicians and songwriters.

Marcia Strassman

#21. Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Jim Coleman

#22. Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#23. Friendships don't last forever, but make sure you make the most of them before it's gone.

Crystal

#24. Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers.
Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.

Toba Beta

#25. I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Jimmy Kimmel

#26. Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. He'd put up with me a lot longer than I would have put up with me, that was certain.

Kristen Ashley

#28. The art of news photography is creating compelling, graphic compositions that communicate environment and emotion. Strung together, they take the viewer on a progression of discovery until the mystery is revealed.

Rich Underwood