Quotes About Still Life Photography

#1. The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

Emmet Gowin

#2. I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Harry Callahan

#3. Be in love with the moments of your life.

Matthew Knisely

#4. My way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things ...

Sebastiao Salgado

#5. The greatest moments are right in front of you.

Matthew Knisely

#6. I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

Josef Sudek

#7. Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

John Sexton

#8. Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

Paul Strand

#9. It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

Helmut Newton

#10. By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3.
I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

A.S. King

#11. Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

Franz Kafka

#12. If you don't capture the moments, it will be gone forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I was always in front of the camera. My mom was really passionate about photography - I have pictures of my whole life. I've always just been in front of my mom's camera, and it's always comfortable to me.

Gigi Hadid

#14. Life is once. Forever.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#15. A fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

Adam Gopnik

#16. Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still lifes, one day we know that we will be brought to account: life is passing before our eyes without our ever having seen a thing.

Brassai

#17. Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

#18. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#19. I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

John Sexton

#20. When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#21. Because I know war ... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it ... After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this ...

Edouard Boubat

#22. Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Paul Strand

#23. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

Richard Misrach

#24. And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Richard Avedon

#25. I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

Alaina Huffman

#26. Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

Ruth Bernhard

#27. In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,

Nobuyoshi Araki

#28. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.

Galen Rowell

#29. Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.

Destin Sparks

#30. [Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life.

Michael Kimmelman

#31. The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.

Brooks Jensen

#32. The work of the artist is not so much what you say or what you know, it's recognizing what you know. That's what life is about. That's what photography is about. You see something, or you hear someone say something, and you say That is a truth. You know, deep in you. That's when you start shooting.

Sylvia Plachy

#33. Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

Laurel Nakadate

#34. Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#35. Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world

Rennie Ellis

#36. The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

Richard Kalvar

#37. Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

Laurel Nakadate

#38. Only photography has been able to divide human life
into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

Eadweard Muybridge

#39. When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Aleksandar Hemon

#40. The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Matthew Knisely