I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter. — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter. — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
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
“It was a house of shadows, where the sunshine was filtered down to a guttering night-light strength between the laths of the… — Émile Zola 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
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
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
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
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Although they're often associated with period properties, shutters look the part in all types of homes and I love them! — George Clarke 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
In L.A., I love the L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Also, the Beverly Wilshire, where they make great huevos rancheros. I also love… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are… — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly,… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
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 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
The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet… — Frances Mayes 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
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 Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of… — Edward Weston 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
“It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“Blinds and Curtains used in home and office, then change tha environment different.” — Priya Copy Share Image
I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field. — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood 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
[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 Copy Share Image