We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they… — Walter Savage Landor 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
What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter… — Sally Mann 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
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy… — Robert Browning 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and… — William Cowper 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
For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty… — Gustave Flaubert 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
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
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 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
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. — Anonymous 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
Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it… — Shane Carruth 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
I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field. — Rick Steves 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
