Photograph Quote by Henry Wessel, Jr

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.

— Eve Plumb

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

— Rene Burri

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again…

— Steve McCurry

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

— Ralph Steiner

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

— David Hockney

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

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

— Mary Ellen Mark

You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what you photograph…

— Garry Winogrand

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

— Robert Mapplethorpe