Shutter Quotes

I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”

— Ansel Adams

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

— Mary Ellen Mark

The sound of a camera shutter is music to my ears

— Nigel McKain

Hearing a camera shutter noise in a public bathroom can never be for anything normal.

— Anonymous

When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

— Harold Feinstein

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

— Ansel Adams

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.

— Ernst Haas

“How are we supposed to get in?” Stella kicked the metal shutter. “Fool of a Took!” Jamie hissed through his teeth. “If…

— Michelle Hodkin

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

— Ralph Steiner

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when…

— Matthew Modine

“I am a camera, with its shutter open, quite passive. Some day all of this will have to be will have to…

— John Van Druten

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter…

— Sally Mann

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene…

— Alain de Botton

I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth:…

— Eudora Welty

Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off…

— George Eastman

What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are…

— Sylvia Plachy

...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive…

— W. Eugene Smith

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx…

— Graciela Iturbide

If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and…

— John Filo

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and…

— Christopher Isherwood

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our…

— Maggie Steber

Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field…

— John Paul Caponigro

My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion…

— Jeff Vespa

To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my…

— Mario Giacomelli

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the…

— Peter Brook

“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's…

— Whitney Scharer

“Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone…

— Robert Goddard

Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless…

— Pittacus Lore

“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the…

— Eudora Welty

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

— Christopher Isherwood

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay…

— Eve Plumb

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

— Janet Malcolm

“then recompose your shot, just place the focus point in the viewfinder on your subject, depress the shutter release button halfway until…

— Anonymous

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original.…

— Maggie Steber