Magic Of Photography Quotes

#1. To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.

Mario Testino

#2. For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

John Sexton

#3. You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Eve Arnold

#4. The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

Brian "Head" Welch

#5. The magic possibility of framing a certain space and time is what brought me to photography. This process of recording elements of 3 dimensions in the flow of time, and fixing them in a 2 dimensional image, creates a new context for the elements of the photograph ...

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#6. My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.

Amy Bloom

#7. Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.

Rebecca McNutt

#8. To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Origen

#9. Don't make me Romeo

Eloisa James

#10. He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.

Patti Smith

#11. A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time ... Everything was touched with magic.

Margaret Bourke-White

#12. Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#13. The scents of nature are largely a chemical conversation between plants and animals and humans merely eavesdrop.

Avery Gilbert

#14. Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

Ansel Adams

#15. Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

Julian Barnes

#16. The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

#17. I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Dave Gahan

#18. You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.

Blue GhostGhost

#19. The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.

Martti Ahtisaari

#20. Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

Susan Sontag

#21. The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Roland Barthes

#22. Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

Barbara Kruger

#23. Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.

Elliott Erwitt

#24. I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

Mads Mikkelsen

#25. I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

Robert Mapplethorpe