Photos Quotes

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

“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

“The best writers tend to look the roughest in photos. At least that's the excuse I use for why I look so bad in mine.”
― R.D. Ronald

“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos of me alone or of mountains and rivers and deer and cats were left intact. Three albums rendered into a revised past. It was as if I'd been alone at birth, alone all my days, and would continue alone.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn't the 16,000 murders each year [...]. That's not the problem. The photo is the thing.”
― Teodoro Petkoff

“Keep your cherished photos of your destiny at the fore-front of your mind. No one gets the gut to make them blurred. Always think about it; dream about it and work it out!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.”
― Zu Vincent, The Lucky Place

“one thing that i always know when i take your photos, is that you only look at the camera. not my eyes”
― Ahmad Arief

“Sometimes it seems that a photo is anything but still. Sometimes photos seem to have a voice; to be alive in the stillness of their own image.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“The most beautiful images are often the least honest.”
― Manu Larcenet, Ordinary Victories

“She scanned the mess on the floor where several of the book’s pages were bent, and the glass of the frame had a single crack etched across it.

Bending over, Helen picked up the picture. Through shades of black and white, her mother radiated up at her. When The Wizard of Oz had come out with color, everyone had been amazed, Helen included. But after the film, while the others talked about the munchkins’ hair and Emerald City and Glinda’s dress, Helen realized that the color made you see things. Black and white made you see souls.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter :

“Any good photo is a secret of a secret. It's the unknowable glimpsed within a glimpse, the puzzle in plain sight. It's the question that makes us look for an answer we're never going to find. An open case. An unsolved mystery. A good still is never still - it's restive, alive.”
― Alison MacLeod, Tenderness

“Only actors, narcissists, and freakishly beautiful people liked seeing themselves on film.”
― Camille Pagán, Good for You

“During my 4th grade year the National Park Service announced an essay contest about the importance of parks. I was inspired by some now forgotten prize to begin writing with this contest. It seemed progress was being made as I declared that "Parks are like old photos" only to be asked to clarify – "How exactly are parks like old photos?" This question created a case of Writer's Block that extended through the essay contest deadline. Lewis Carroll was content with leaving us with "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" but I kept working on my answer. How are parks like old photos? You'll know when they are gone.”
― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“There are thirty-six photos on your four-year-old phone, and all of them are of dismembered bodies,' she said. Someone gasped across the store.

Hunt gritted his teeth. 'Say it a little louder, Quinlan.'

She frowned. 'You never take any others?'

'Of what?'

'Oh, I don't know- of life? A pretty flower or good meal or something?'

'What's the point?'

She blinked, then shook her head. 'Weirdo.'

And before he could stop her, she'd angled his phone in front of her, beamed from ear to ear, and snapped a photo of herself before she handed it back to him. 'There. One non-corpse photo.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“The good photo settles in your eye; the better photo settles in your mind, but the best photo settles in your heart!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No camera can capture, what your eyes capture.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In wildlife photography,
Journey is more imp than photograph.

Because everyone will see photo,
But only you know the journey and struggle behind that...!!”
― Kedar dhepe

“Photography is my passion; flower photography is my art.”
― Glenn Franco Simmons

“Vampires must be the least narcissistic creatures. They can’t see themselves in the mirror, and they can’t take any selfies. Vampires don’t belong to Selfie culture. Boo hoo.”
― David Sinclair, The War of the Mind: Understanding Inflation and Alienation

“The mental images were liquifying so I could no longer separate what I was recalling from the past from what I'd seen in detailed photos that afternoon. Like life. I've long suspected that many of my memories from childhood are actually drawn from old pictures, That they are composed of snapshots, A mosaic of celluloids Images reworked into a remembered reality. Kodak cast backwards. Maybe it's better to recall the past that way. We rarely take pictures of sad occasions.”
― Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead

“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?” - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger

“I mean a photo is just that: a moment in time. We don’t know what’s really going on with the people in the picture. And we
don’t know what’s going on with the photographer. What makes it important is what we bring to the photo: our assumption of who is the bad guy and who is the good guy. What makes it important is how we feel when we look at it. And a photograph doesn’t have to be about riots or death or famine or children at play in a war zone to make an impact.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“Tourists take pictures to prove they were there. Filmmakers make movies because they were never there.”
― Laurie Anderson

“Photos do not always show reality; I am not as like my photos; you cannot even imagine when you see me in real life.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“On the morning of the funeral, we arrived at the church an hour or so early to set up and prepare. We like to be the first ones at a church funeral, but today we were beat by Chad’s mother, who was setting photos of her son around the small sanctuary of the church with a smile on her face. She had photos of Chad as an infant, dressed in his baby clothes; the classic T-ball photo shoots that are equal parts Americana and boyhood dreams; the prom photo shoot; the graduate photos. And that was it. The pictures stopped after high school when he decided to pursue a life away from his parents.”
― Caleb Wilde, Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

“There are thirty-six photos on your four-year-old phone, and all of them are of dismembered bodies,' ...”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Beyond what's seen, every photo holds a story waiting to be unlocked.”
― Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“Photos capture moments, great ones capture their essence.”
― Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer