Quotes about Photography, page 3

Camera are designed with a built-in sensor, that senses the anticipation to develop the film.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

When the level of anticipation is highest, this sensor causes the back to flip open exposing the film.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

Lenses are attracted back to their source - hard rocks.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

No matter how long you've had a convention for marking film holders, you will forget it when exposing the once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

The greater a photographer's excitement, the greater its chance of fogging film, scratching prints, and deleting files.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

The success of an assignment is inversely proportional to the product of its importance and the number of people watching.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

Strobes only explode when lots of people are watching.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil along with the evil of racism with a camera.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really the important people are the people he photographs.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Quote by Emile Zola about photography

A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about photography

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Quote by Susan Oliver about photography

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Quote by Diane Arbus about photography