About Quote by Teju Cole

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

— Robert Frank

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of…

— Wynn Bullock

“The photograph not only stops time, Benjamin argues, but also works to project the future out of the past. The photograph is a forward-looking…

— Shawn Michelle Smith

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

— Richard Armitage

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here…

— Harry Benson

Things just enter reality through photographs.

— Thomas Demand

There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea…

— Madonna Ciccone

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat…

— D. A. Pennebaker