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15166. “I think there is an element of magic in photography — light, chemistry, precious metals — a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.” ― Keith Carter April 7, 2020
15165. “Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.” ― Susan Sontag April 7, 2020
15164. “If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.” ― Anonymous April 7, 2020
15163. “When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan April 7, 2020
15162. “The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.” ― Luhraw April 7, 2020
15161. “Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” ― Matt Hardy April 7, 2020
15160. “If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” ― Jay Maisel April 7, 2020
15159. “A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck….life is just fine” ― sunny-drunk April 7, 2020
15158. “The shutter of the photographer’s camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.” ― Simon Mawer April 7, 2020
15157. “An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?” ― Luhraw April 7, 2020
15156. “A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.” ― Ivan Klíma, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light April 7, 2020
15155. “This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.” ― Criss Jami, Healology April 7, 2020
15154. “Capture every moments of your life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great! April 7, 2020
15153. “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” ― Susan Meiselas April 7, 2020
15151. “A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.” ― Irving Penn April 7, 2020
15150. “Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.” ― Peter Adams April 7, 2020
15149. “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” ― George Eastman April 7, 2020
15148. “A picture’s worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.” ― Rebecca McNutt, Smog City April 7, 2020
15147. “Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” ― Yousuf Karsh April 7, 2020
15146. “A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart.” ― Arnold Newman April 7, 2020
15145. “I don’t like jellyfish, they’re not a fish, they’re just a blob. They don’t have eyes, fins or scales like a cod. They float about blind, stinging people in the seas, And no one eats jellyfish with chips and mushy peas. Get rid of ’em!” ― Karl Pilkington, Happyslapped by a Jellyfish: The Words of Karl Pilkington April 7, 2020
15144. “It’s a wonder they can sit down at all, and when they walk, nothing touches their legs under the billowing skirts, except their shifts and stockings. They are like swans, drifting along on unseen feet; or else like the jellyfish in the waters of the rocky harbour near our house, when I was little, before I ever made the long sad journey across the ocean. They were bell-shaped and ruffled, gracefully waving and lovely under the sea; but if they washed up on the beach and dried out in the sun there was nothing left of them. And that is what the ladies are like: mostly water.” ― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace April 7, 2020
15143. “A jellyfish, if you watch it long enough, begins to look like a heart beating. It doesn’t matter what kind: the blooded Atolla with its flashing siren lights, the frilly flower hat variety, or the near-transparent moon jelly, Aurelia aurita. It’s their pulse, the way they contract swiftly, than release. Like a ghost heart– a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost as gone to hide. Jellyfish don’t even have hearts, of course– no heart, no brain, no bone, no blood. But watch them for a while. You will see them beating.” ― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish April 7, 2020
15142. “When you move like a jellyfish rhythm don’t mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don’t stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don’t stop.” ― Jack Johnson April 7, 2020
15141. “The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things. We just happen to to forget all that. Don’t you agree? Two-thirds of earth’s surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface: the skin.” ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle April 7, 2020
15140. “Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are … They have no harsh edges with each other, no spiny conflicts, they ride though life like conjoined jellyfish – expanding and contracting instinctively, filling each other’s spaces liquidly. Making it look easy.” ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl April 7, 2020
15139. “Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…” ― Rebecca McNutt, Smog City April 7, 2020
15138. “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.” ― Rebecca McNutt, Smog City April 7, 2020
15137. “In the context of photography , there was a luck. But the luck will come, when the photographer is ready.” ― Adithya Zen April 7, 2020
15136. “Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.” ― John Thai April 7, 2020
15134. “To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren’t expecting to.” ― Susana Fortes, Waiting for Robert Capa April 7, 2020
15133. “In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before me. Not the classical beauty of symmetry and exact proportions or the fancy of fashion, which is ever-changing with the seasons, but the beauty of a soul, that inner life that reveals itself so seldom, just for an instant, and only if you look closely and learn to see with an open heart.” ― Elizabeth Ross, Belle Epoque April 7, 2020
15132. “Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don’t forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.” ― David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision April 7, 2020
15131. “I’ve never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I’ve just discovered what was already there.” ― Anthony Farrimond April 7, 2020
15129. “If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?” ― David Mellonie, Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia April 7, 2020
15128. “As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.” ― Annie Leibovitz April 7, 2020
15125. “When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.” ― Sameh Elsayed April 7, 2020
15124. “When you press the shutter, time won’t see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment… and thats the best Farewell for that moment.” ― Sagar Gosavi April 7, 2020
15123. “The greatest moments are right in front of you.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 7, 2020
15122. “Be in love with the moments of your life.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 7, 2020
15121. “No, I don’t work here, I’m taking pictures of messy bathrooms for a photo essay on the American West. But I’m always up for clean, so if you want to pitch in, I’ve got Pine Sol and a sponge in my car… It’s that VW microbus parked next to the dumpster, and you don’t need a key, just pull hard.” ― Pansy Schneider-Horst April 7, 2020
15120. “If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 7, 2020
15119. “The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 7, 2020
15118. “If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.” ― Deeksha Mittal April 7, 2020
15117. “When I make a photograph I feel that I hold a piece of the universe in my hands.” ― Paul Chaplo April 7, 2020
15116. “Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 7, 2020
15115. “(…) photography opened up quite a little Pandora’s box, kiddies. (…) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.” ― Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys April 7, 2020
15114. “Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 6, 2020
15113. “When the world asks “what was it like?” Only the photographer can say “See!” ― Mark Denman April 6, 2020
15112. “All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment.” ― Alfred Eisenstaedt April 6, 2020
15111. “The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.” ― Mark Denman April 6, 2020
15110. “Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.” ― Matthew Knisely, Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World April 6, 2020
15109. “Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.” ― Katja Michael April 6, 2020
15106. “A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs—especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past—are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.” ― Susan Sontag, On Photography April 6, 2020