my self photography

“Photography is truth.”

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“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
— Annie Leibovitz

“If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.”
— Linda McCartney

“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
— Ansel Adams

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
— Diane Arbus

“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
— Elliott Erwitt

“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.”
— Annie Leibovitz

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
— Karl Lagerfeld

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“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.”
— Irving Penn

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
— Matt Hardy

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
— Elliott Erwitt

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
— Ansel Adams

“When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.”
— Anonymous

“I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.”
— Annie Leibovitz

“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.”
— Diane Arbus

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
— Richard Avedon

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
— Susan Sontag

“I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.”
— Wayne Miller

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“I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.”
— Bruce Gilden

“If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.”
— Jim Richardson

“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.”
— Annie Leibovitz

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
— Steve McCurry

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”
— Yousuf Karsh

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“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
— Susan Meiselas

“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
— Tony Benn

“It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”
— Alfred Eisenstaedt

“I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.”
— Ellen Von Unwerth

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
— Peter Adams

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
— Unknown

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“Only photograph what you love.”
— Tim Walker

“In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.”
— August Sander

“When I photograph, what I’m really doing is seeking answers to things.”
— Wynn Bullock

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
— Yousuf Karsh

“It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.”
— James Lalropui Keivom

“Once photography enters your bloodstream, it is like a disease.”
— Anonymous

“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
— Imogen Cunningham