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 Copy Share Image
It's a lot more than clicking the shutter...it's the ideas, it's the visual voice, it's the telling the story, it's kind of… — Ron Haviv Copy Share Image
When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, -… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our… — Maggie Steber Copy Share Image
The moment when I press the shutter is fantastic, orgasmic, so charged with the hope that this will be a great, original,… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and… — John Filo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows,… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“incandescent afternoons in Spain, the shutters closed, a blade of sun burning into the darkness.” — James Salter Copy Share Image
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter. — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them… — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
On my Instagram, I'm always keeping a record of things being pulled down in Soho and shutters being closed. Every city -… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
![“To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my tripod, so I worry that the landscape may disappear the next second and I don't stop keeping an eye on it while I get prepared. Then, when pressing the shutter, I hold my breath. These moments…” quote by Mario Giacomelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce9/mario-giacomelli-46577_beautiful_to-be-sure-the-landscape-can-t-run-away_1074985.jpg)
![“My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca0/jeff-vespa-25539_artistic_my-mom-had-bought-this-camera-to-take-cl_266973.jpg)
