These are the most interesting quotes I found from artists, writers, film makers, journalists, designers, art-critics, actors and philosophers on the subject of photography. As with the photographers, I allowed myself only one quote for each. Same express pro-photography views, whilst others are decidedly opposed to the medium. Either way, they make interesting reading.
Brigitte Bardot – Actress, singer, fashion model & animal rights activist
“A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.”
John Berger – Art critic, novelist, painter and poet
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.”
Alain de Botton – Philosopher
“Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.”
William S. Burroughs – Novelist, satirist, essayist, painter, & spoken word performer
Harold Evans – Journalist & writer
“The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.”
Stig Evans – Artist
“Photography isn’t art… it’s Marksmanship.”
Mahatma Gandhi – Leader of the Indian independence movement
“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
Jean-Luc Godard – Film director, screenwriter & film critic
“Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.”
Edvard Munch – Artist
“The camera will never compete with the brush and palette until such time as photography can be taken to Heaven or Hell.”
Orson Welles – Actor, director, writer, & producer
“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.”