Short Photography Sayings

#1. In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

Shomei Tomatsu

#2. Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

Douglas McCulloh

#3. Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

Paul Kane

#4. If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

Edward Weston

#5. Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#6. One sees differently with color photography than black-and-white ... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.

Ansel Adams

#7. Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

A.W. Tozer

#8. Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

Barack Obama

#9. Israelis cannot be blamed for the conflicts and civilians casualties nor do the Palestinians. We can argue endlessly about it, the only one that can be blamed for this lasting battle is the Saudis fueling the conflicts for enduring their supremacy in the Arab world.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

Sean Durkin

#11. Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

Taner Edis

#12. Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

Brassai

#13. Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

Ritchie Blackmore

#14. With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big.

Andreas Feininger

#15. 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

#16. Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.

Tom Verica

#17. A relationship will only go as far as you both want it to.

Subhasis Das

#18. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

Greta Salpeter

#19. it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language.

Andre Bazin

#20. Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

Brit Marling

#21. When I first started 'Humans of New York,' I was writing short stories. There were about 50 of them. And, you know, they were a great part of the site, but the photography just started growing so fast that I didn't have time to make them anymore.

Brandon Stanton

#22. We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.

William R. Brody

#23. With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#24. Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Bradley Whitford

#25. Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#26. Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

George Barr

#27. It's strange to think about your teachers as being people.

Stephen Chbosky

#28. Life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend

Paulo Coelho