Tony Benn Quotes

I always carry my camera with me.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

Photography is a form of time travel.

When I’m photographing I see life.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capture smile moments and would encourage aspiring photographers to express themselves through their photos.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it.

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

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

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

I take a lot of pictures.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.