Spirit Photography Quotes

#1. A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Cesare Pavese

#2. You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.

Amy Lee

#3. "Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

Edward Weston

#4. When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories ... .. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.

Sameh Elsayed

#5. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Harry Callahan

#6. Where's Lover Boy? Oh, I see. You were gonna help him, right? Well that's sweet. It's too bad you couldn't help your little ... friend. That little girl? What was her name again? Rue? Well, we killed her. And now ... we're gonna kill you. -Clove, The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

#7. I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#8. I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

Isabel Allende

#9. Why does not the stunning evidence of the last miracle grant me confidence in the next crisis? Because my immaturity does not permit such a faith, my desperate prayer is that God would grant me a robust faith sufficient to trust Him not for one crisis, but for an eternity of miracles.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

Luther Allison

#11. The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of deep composition: spirit, rhythm, thought, and scenery.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe ...

H.G.Wells

#13. As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.

Wynn Bullock

#14. There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that has spirit! I don't give a damn how it got made.

Minor White

#15. Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today.

Edward Weston

#16. Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#17. 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

#18. Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

Sri Chinmoy

#19. In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

Man Ray

#20. I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.

Nicolas Cage

#21. How cool is it to go into your own backyard, talk directly to the spirit of your own loved one and request a response from them in the form of a spirit photograph.

Robyn L. Reynolds

#22. 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