Shutter Quotes
41 quotes by 36 authors
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Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
— Ansel Adams
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I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.
— Rick Steves
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You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all…
— Garry Winogrand
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The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
— Wendell Berry
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What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing…
— Sally Mann
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Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the…
— Janet Macunovich
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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.
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
— Edward Steichen
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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
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It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.
— Mary Ellen Mark
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
— Lawrence Durrell
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning,…
— Ann Voskamp
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The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.
— Deborah Copaken
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Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter.
— Jim Elliot
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A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the…
— Eric Hoffer
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When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,…
— Annie Dillard
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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 you release the…
— Matthew Modine
Who Wrote These Shutter Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 41 Shutter Quotes, led by these top contributors: