photography Quotes

“She then handed Hugo a photo she had taken of him with his old friends Antoine and Louis. They all had their arms around one another’s necks and were laughing.”

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

“When he almost imperceptibly takes a half step backwards into the hall...he notices, from the corner of his eye, the photo of Sonja on the wall. The red dress. The bus trip to Spain when she was pregnant. He asked her so many times to take that bloody photo down, but she refused. She said it was ‘a memory worth as much as any other.‘”

“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”

I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn’t recognize my own mother when a press photographer had done with her.

“Well, I was thinking, we don’t really have any photographs of us. And I thought this song could be like a photo that captures us in this moment in our life together.”

“Chronicle your adventures with photos - for yourself and for your daughter. Have a camera handy during all wedding planning sessions and outings.”

“In order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity; the second to madness.”

“Well satisfied with his purchases and feeling very elegant indeed, Babar now goes to the photographer to have his picture taken.”

“In the bookcases of their apartment were four volumes of poetry which had written by Myron Krupnik. But the fourth book was her favorite. Her father’s photograph showed him bald and bearded, the way she had always know him. The poems were soft sounding and quiet, when he read them to her. The book was called Bittersweet; and it said, inside, ‘To someone special: Anastasia’.”

“A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.”