Days Quote by Eve Plumb

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

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

— Mary Ellen Mark

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim

During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted…

— Lev Manovich

Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a…

— Maggie Steber

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

— Ralph Steiner

...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the…

— W. Eugene Smith

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

— Rene Burri

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into…

— Jean Cocteau