#photograph

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood. ↗

— Joe McNally

#parenting #relationships #photography

Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#holiday #memories #photograph #photographer #photography

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#photography #photography

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#appearances #clowns #faces #photographs #sadness

Most of the views are visible to everyone but only those who had passion can see it beyond. ↗

— Namie Richards

#photography-quotes #wisdom #inspirational

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ↗

— Sam Abell

#arts #desire #humans #moment #perfected

A good photograph is knowing where to stand. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#knowing #photograph #stand #where

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#come #domination #impose #instrument #love

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#i #nobody #photograph #really #see

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#none #photographs #them #truth