Awe Quote by Annie Dillard

“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had to decide…

— Annie Leibovitz

“VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surveying behind me a wasteland…

— John Tottenham

“There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful.…

— Robert Frank

“I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far…

— Leah Stewart

“Wherever you go, and whatever you do, the first thing you're going to see in the morning, and the last thing at night, is…

— Michael Marshall Smith

“It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the photograph forever.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply involved in…

— Annie Leibovitz

“My vision blurs. We carry the lives we’ve imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all of…

— Helen Macdonald

“Right as my eyes were about to move onto the next photo in the sequence, they froze and focused on something that vexed me…

— Dathan Auerbach

“Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide…

— George Eliot

“Sometimes I think you take photographs instead of seeing, you forget to look in your eagerness to grasp what is seen, to capture it…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl