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“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
― Brigitte Bardot

“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“When we fall in love with someone there's a moment when we take a picture of that person, an emotional snapshot, that we carry with us forever. If we're lucky, if we're very, very lucky, the person we fall in love with will always resemble that snapshot.”
― Jim Geoghan, Light Sensitive

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”
― Ansel Adams

“I thought about the word 'profile' and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we're looking at a person's profile online, or say a newspaper is writing a profile on someone, and we assume it's the whole them we're seeing. But when a photographer takes a picture of a profile, you're only seeing half the face... It's never the way you would remember seeing them. You never remember someone 'in profile.' You remember them looking you in the eye, or talking to you. You remember an image that the subject could never see in a mirror, because you are the mirror. A profile, photographically, is perpendicular to the person you know.”
― David Levithan, Every You, Every Me

“There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.”
― Sara Sheridan

“Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!”
― Abhijeet Sawant

“Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.”
― Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.”
― Ansel Adams

“There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.”
― Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.”
― Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography

“when you take a photograph, things stay still. The way that they were, is the way that they are, is the way that they will always be.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts

“The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric â€� a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases â€� was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that all duplicitous traits, were easily erased, leaving the deranged and chaotic nature of the original far behind. The photograph succeeded in turning the hysteric into a wholly artificial being, literally a flat, framed, unmoving image.”
― Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

“A photograph: poetry made image.”
― Sivi le poète, Je parsâ€� mais je reviendrai

“The photograph that will help this moment and this day live for ever more.”
― David Almond, Island

“Photographs used to present us as we actually were. Now days our photographs have nothing to do with the way we really look like.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“What are you doing? '
'I'm taking a picture of a national gay landmark. ' Alex tells him 'and also a statue.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“I wished I could keep everything I witnessed like a photograph, to forever hold this electric aliveness.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Every photograph posed itself this one question: Are we allowed to view what is being exposed?”
― Doug Rice, Between Appear and Disappear

“The corporate controlled media is a surveillance system.”
― Steven Magee

“India started to flip through the magazine until she came to a page with an eagle-like bird. The joint breath of every person in the room drew in as one. It was magnificent.
The bird's plumage was almost bright red in the sun, and it made a stunning contrast with a head and breast of pure white. The thing that jumped off the page, though, was the obsidian, knowing depth of its eyes. When you looked closer you saw that it was perched on the rusted butt of an old cannon.
Even with that detail, it might have been just another well-taken photograph until you noticed a ring of dragonflies circling its proud head like a floating crown. Every one of them gasped at the sheer power of the captured moment.”
― Sonali Dev, The Emma Project

“Having to wait to develop my pictures before I can see them, is part of the fun of film photography. However, when I see them I always ask myself, "Why the heck did I shoot that?â€� - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“The photograph of Ibrahim, Eric Mason and Eric's grandson was in a special file Ibrahim kept at home. A file filled with mementos, not too many, all reminding Ibrahim why he loved his job. The file is the only one on Ibrahim's shelves that isn't kept in strict alphabetical order. Because sometimes you had to remember that life wasn't always arranged in alphabetical order, however much you would like it to be.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“I went to a music concert last night. I took a bunch of pictures, because nothing captures sound like a photograph.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Can a selfie see what's inside a person's heart?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A photograph is reality taken out of context.”
― Criss Jami

“It used to be said that a picture is worth a thousand words; however today, in journalism and across social media, a picture is worth a thousand out-of-context speculations.”
― Criss Jami

“A good photograph emerges when emotion discovers its voice, and that voice is rendered visible, a testament to the alchemy of thought and feeling captured in light.”
― Craig Varjabedian, Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait

“I photographer because I want a visual diary. Photography lets me capture the fleeting moments of daily life, the images would otherwise fade into oblivion. My contact sheets, my hard drives bursting with images, these are my personal journal, just with better lighting and way less writing. - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger