Quotes About Light Photographer

#1. It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William James

#2. No man can prophesy with another's parable.

Anna Julia Cooper

#3. When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.

David Wilkerson

#4. If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

Peter Megargee Brown

#5. They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.

Charlotte Church

#6. [The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light ... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

Henry Wessel Jr.

#7. If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Mohsin Hamid

#8. The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.

Simon Mawer

#9. Everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings ... To capture some of this - I suppose that's lyricism.

Josef Sudek

#10. Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

Andreas Feininger

#11. Light: the greatest painter and photographer of all. At every single moment of our lives we see different images, different pictures.

Abbas Kiarostami

#12. I am a photographer who likes to make images, but I also want to get a sense and understanding of images that have already been made. I don't fabricate worlds; I pay attention to the things that already surround us.

Michael Light

#13. If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

Lola Alvarez Bravo

#14. action speaks louder, words cut to the bone

F.J. Nanic

#15. Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

David Byrne

#16. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

Saul Bellow

#17. Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.

Edouard Boubat

#18. Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

Mike Huckabee

#19. Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Aldous Huxley

#20. But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

Damien Hirst

#21. I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.

Daniel H. Wilson

#22. I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

Keanu Reeves

#23. Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty.

Kobo Abe

#24. The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.

Andreas Feininger

#25. Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

Ellen Glasgow

#26. There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

David Travis

#27. And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

Bill Brandt

#28. There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

Katie Aselton

#29. One of my basic feelings is that the mind, and the heart alike, of the photographer must be dedicated to the glory, the magic, and the mystery of light. The mystery of time, the magic of light, the enigma of reality - and their interrelationships - are my constant themes and preoccupations.

Clarence John Laughlin

#30. The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy