Eleena Rioux > Eleena's Quotes

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
― Eudora Welty

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams

“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
― Robert Frank

“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
― Ansel Adams

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.”
― Ansel Adams

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ”
― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above

“Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference”
― Robert Frank

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
― Alfred Stieglitz

“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”
― Walter De Mulder

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”
― Dorothea Lange

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”
― Edward Weston

“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”
― William S. Burroughs

“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
― Brigitte Bardot

“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.”
― Seth Godin

“Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.”
― Tiffany Madison

“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”
― Henri Cartier-Bresson

“One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.”
― Diane Arbus

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
― Peter Gasser

“For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.”
― diane arbus