Photography Vision Quotes

#1. At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I've been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity.

Sophia Amoruso

#2. I laughed as we turned in a tight circle ... "Tonight you're all mine."
Jake smiled but looked me dead in the eye. "No. From now on."
My heart skipped. "What?"
"Yours," he said simply, "from now on.

Kieran Scott

#3. Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Mark Twain

#4. Art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

Robert Adams

#5. This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.

Lisette Model

#6. Photography is all about the perspective!

Pradeepa Pandiyan

#7. The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#8. We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

Criss Jami

#9. When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

Edward Weston

#10. A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

Sid Grossman

#11. The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress.

William Howard Taft

#12. No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

Cus D'Amato

#13. When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

Bob Dylan

#14. While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

Chuck Close

#15. The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

Don Chadwick

#16. Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.

Joseph Kosuth

#17. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Robert Frank

#18. Every thing has a soul, every soul has emotions.

Paulo Coelho

#19. Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Tacitus

#20. The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Berenice Abbott

#21. The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

Walker Evans

#22. When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.

Keith Carter

#23. Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.

Chuck Close

#24. Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Daido Moriyama

#25. Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

Robert Rauschenberg

#26. Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

Ernst Haas

#27. I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

Edward Hirsch

#28. I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

Joseph Mawle

#29. I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

Paul Caponigro

#30. Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

Michel De Montaigne

#31. While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Dorothea Lange

#32. Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

Ellsworth Kelly

#33. [Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#34. Photography ... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

Paul Strand

#35. We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.

Piet Zwart

#36. I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#37. All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Ansel Adams

#38. Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

Jim Highsmith

#39. 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

#40. Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

Vijay Mallya

#41. I have seen words
fly out at the end of thoughts
and not return. I have seen
things at the end of thoughts
without words.

Ricardo M. De Ungria