“I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking pictures of your feet.”— Scarlett Johansson, Charlotte, amazon.com
“It's just, sometimes... people don't really say what they're really thinking. But when you capture the right moment, it says more.”— Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Jonathan Byers, Charlie Heaton, netflix.com
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”— Toni Morrison, books.google.com
“I was having a bad day...I wasn't in the flow. I was like, Everyone sucks. That's when I did my best image. I was lying in bed and messing with it. And I thought, Is this good? And I just posted it, and I remember looking at it right away and having a lot of likes and saying, 'Huh.'..It has to be or…”— Kendall Jenner, cosmopolitan.com
“Even if you snap the most beautiful photo in the world, it won’t matter or get any engagement if you share it in the middle of the night....The two key times that people will check Instagram is either in the morning after they wake up or in the evening going home after work.”— Tim Sae Koo, tintup.com
“My most genuine growth has come through collaborating with other Instagrammers. When someone's work blows me away, I'll occasionally ask for them to send me an original, unedited image...so that we can both edit each other's photos and post them with mutual shoutouts. This is a great way to grow an…”— Kyle Huber, esquire.com
“I actually wasn't trying to be a photographer; I truly loved taking pictures with my iPhone. It wasn't until I refined my own style and focused on keeping the quality of my posts consistent that my following started to grow. I realized that if my most recent photos always looked awesome together in…”— Kyle Huber, esquire.com
“Images touch us at the deepest place of existence and remake the world again and again.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative, which we develop later, when we are back at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner dark-room the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“The poignancy of the photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred.”— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com
“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn’t exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”— Ryan McGinley, nytimes.com
“We have all heard it said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Yet, if this statement is true, why does it have to be a saying? Because a picture is worth a thousand words only under special conditions—which commonly include a context of words in which the picture is set.”— Walter Ong,