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100 Inspirational Street Photography Quotes

Are You stuck in a rut and want to re-fuel Your inspiration, or are You simply interested in the mindset of some of most famous Street Photographers? Then this collection of Street Photography Quotes might inspire You to give Your best on the next photo walk.

A lot of the popular Street Photography Quotes have lost their original meanings over time. They are often not meant to be taken literally, but also figuratively.

Of course, the primary meaning is to get closer to Your subjects. This is beneficial in Street Photography in many ways.

You are reducing the chaos in the frame, erasing unnecessary elements near the edges, by narrowing down the frame. It becomes easier to understand what the focus of the photograph is and therefore the story becomes more understandable.

The quotes are not inspirational, but sometimes educational when You think about them.

Not all of the Street Photography Quotes will be helpful for You. Focus on the ones that seem the most interesting to You and apply them in Your Street Photography or note them down.

The next time You feel a little uninspired or need some motivation, look at Your personal list of quotes to give You some extra push.

1My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder. – Abbas

2There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. – Abraham Lincoln

3I fell in love with taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me, it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance. – Alec Soth

4Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments. – Alex Tehrani

5I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

– Alex Webb

6It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

7Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. – Alfred Stieglitz

8Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

9Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph. – Andre Kertesz

10The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. – Andy Warhol

11A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. – Annie Leibovitz

12Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

13It’s not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It’s their intimate relations up with it. – Antoine D’Agata

14A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

– Brigitte Bardot

15Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. – Bruno Barbey

16Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success. – Chase Jarvis

17The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom

18Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. Both meet within soundscapes. – Chien Chi Chang

19When I use the camera, I often feel like I know part of the people or places I come in contact with. – Christophe Agou

20Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick. – Christopher Anderson

21Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

22Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. – Cornell Capa

23We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

– Criss Jami

24Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly

25Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey

26I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with photography. It’s a one-eyed man looking through a little ‘ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that? – David Hockney

27Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. – Diane Arbus

28I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job. – Don McCullin

29The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. – Dorothea Lange

30All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice. – Elliott Erwitt

31For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. – Emment Gowin

32Best wide angle lens? Two steps backward.

Look for the ‘ah ha’. – Ernst Haas

33A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away. – Eudora Welty

34If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. – Eve Arnold

35I have always been very interested in photography. I have looked at far more photographs than I have paintings. Because their reality is stronger than reality itself. – Francis Bacon

36I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. – Garry Winogrand

37Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

38A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw

39Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

– George Eastman

40If you own an oven it does not make you a top chef. Likewise, if you own a camera, it does not make you a professional photographer. – Giles Christopher

41I don’t care so much anymore about ‘good photography’; I am gathering evidence for history. – Gilles Peress

42The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. – Gordon Parks

43A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. – Guy Le Querrec

44I guess I’ve shot about 40,000 negatives and of these, I have about 800 pictures I like. – Harry Callahan

45Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images. – Helen Levitt

46Look, I’m not an intellectual, I just take pictures. – Helmut Newton

47Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

48To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

– Inge Morath

49A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. – Irving Penn

50If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it. – Jay Maisel

51If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic. – Jean Paul Sartre

52You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. – Joel Meyerowitz

53What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

54I have a very good memory, but it’s short. Thank god for photography. – John E. Burkowski

55Photography cannot do much. It provides some level of information, yet it has no pretensions about changing the world. – John Vink

56What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

– Karl Lagerfeld

57Ultimately photography is about who you are. It’s the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit. – Leonard Freed

58Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. – Lewis Carroll

59I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. – Mahatma Gandhi

60In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion. – Man Ray

61Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. – Marc Riboud

62You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain

63With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society’s natural prejudice and giving this a twist. – Martin Parr

64Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.

– Mary Ellen Mark

65A decisive moment stops movement but also provokes thought. – Matt Black

66Buy a good pair of comfortable shoes, have a camera around your neck at all times, keep your elbows in, be patient, optimistic and don’t forget to smile. – Matt Stuart

67For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me. – Mikhael Subotzky

68I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice. – Minor White

69Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. – Morley Baer

70Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

71The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. – Oscar Wilde

72In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

– Pablo Picasso

73It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. – Paul Caponigro

74I want the viewers to be moved into the lives of the people that they are looking at, the visual experience is incredibly emotional. – Paul Fusco

75Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase. – Percy W. Harris

76A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. – Raghu Rai

77We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. – Ralph Hattersley

78A photograph is a moment when you press the button, it will never come back. – Rene Burri

79Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible. – Renee Magritte

80The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. – Richard Kalvar

81If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.

– Robert Capa

82When 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

83There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. – Robert Heinecken

84When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I’m human. It’s the same thing when I’m behind a camera. I forget I exist. – Robert Mapplethorpe

85Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. – Russell Warren

86I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out. – Sebastiao Salgado

87As a photographer, this is what you are after: to bring the world something new, something incredible… Here is the new way to see the world. – Stephen Alvarez

88My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

– Steve McCurry

89The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation. – Susan Meiselas

90All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

91Photography is the beauty of life, captured. – Tara Chisholm

92Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it… – Thomas Leuthard

93I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. – Trent Parke

94A photograph is the pause button on life. – Ty Holland

95Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer. – Walter De Mulder

96Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

– Walter Sickert

97I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs. – Wayne Miller

98Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work. – William Klein

99There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. – William S. Burroughs

100The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same. – Wynn Bullock

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Street photography quotes are a great way to find out how and why photographers capture the streets.

Some of these quotes come from famous street photographers. Other quotes come from photographers whose words resonate with my own ideas and thoughts.

Here are the best 25 street photography quotes. Enjoy!

‘The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.’

Robert Doisneau

‘Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.’

George Addair

‘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

‘I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.’

Garry Winogrand

‘I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things.
To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.’
Alec Soth

‘Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn’t look like somebody else’s work.’

William Klein

‘You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.’

Joel Meyerowitz

‘All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.’

Elliott Erwitt

‘A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.’

Raghu Rai

‘If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph.’

Bruce Gilden

‘It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.’

Alfred Eisenstaedt

‘Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph.’

Andre Kertesz

‘Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.
’

Helen Levitt

‘There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.’

Henri Cartier-Bresson

‘If your photos aren’t good enough, then you’re not close enough.’

Robert Capa

‘I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.‘

Alex Webb

‘A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.‘

Brigitte Bardot

‘A photograph is the pause button on life.
’
Ty Holland

‘I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.’

Trent Parke

‘The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things in words.’

Elliott Erwitt

‘No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.’

Ken Rockwell

‘I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.’

Bruce Gilden

‘There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.’

Ernst Haas

‘It’s weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don’t even amount to a couple of hours.’

James Lalropui Keivom

‘To me, photography is an art of observation.
It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.’
Elliott Erwitt

Who wouldn’t want to hit the streets after reading those? Pack your gear and take some street photos of your own. If you liked this article, you’ll love reading the most influential street photographers!

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Classic - about women, goats, eternity, theft, philistines and other important matters

Prepared by Yulia Shtutina

Fazil Iskander. 1980 © Anatoly Garanin / RIA Novosti

About women nine0003 “Is it true,” one of the guests asked him, “that your wife was an extraordinary beauty?
“It was a rattlesnake,” Viktor Maksimovich answered, and after a short pause he added: “But with a silencer, which made it especially dangerous.”

"Human station"

“He liked much more those women who blushed, meeting his eyes, and, lowering their heads, quickly passed by. Uncle Sandro believed that shame is the most elegant dress of all that adorn a woman. Sometimes he said that shame is the most teasing dress, but, in essence, they are one and the same. nine0004

"Sandro from Chegem"

"Women are the bookstore bibliophiles."

"The veil, lengthening the dispersal of temptation, makes it more powerful and inevitable."

"In a Parisian shop"

"The more he drank, the more the jealousy sobered up. "

"Young architect and beauty"

Men

"Just as you can overlook the stupidity of a beautiful woman, so you can overlook the magnificence of a stupid man."

Holy Lake

“... Men run wild faster. The oppression of historical inaction mainly falls on men ... that's why they drink so much to forget, which further aggravates their social anemicity.

Wilhelm's Gold

nine0014 Eternity

"In the silence, a bumblebee buzzed over her for a long time, importunately reminding her of the great pettiness of eternity."

"Sofichka"

About life

"Life, it is not the cruelty of your lessons that is formidable, but their mysterious reticence is formidable!"

“Modern man feels the instability of everything that is happening around him. He has a feeling that everything must collapse, and for some reason everything is holding on. The surrounding life oppresses him with a double oppression, that is, both by the fact that everything must collapse, and by the fact that it still holds on. nine0004

"Sandro from Chegem"

Fazil Iskander. 1994 © Gennady Prokhorov / TASS

About Man and Humanity

"... Man is a cross between a goat and Shakespeare."

Goats and Shakespeare

“Nothing irritates a person more than prolonged gratitude.”

"Oh my patron!"

"The ingratitude of humanity slightly stung me, and I felt quite grown up."

Kindergarten

About philistines and dropouts

“The philistine is always difficult, and this is a consequence of the consciousness of inner inferiority. If, thanks to special talent, he outgrows this consciousness, he is simple and natural, like Chekhov.

"The chairman of the collective farm . .. was a man of that all-Russian type of furious half-educated people, who were then copiously pulled out of the crowd by the time magnet." nine0004

"Sandro from Chegem"

Livestock

“According to colleagues from behind the ridge, it turns out that all of our goats are out of step and only the only North Caucasian turokos is stepping in step. But with whom?

Constellation Kozlotur

“Goats, unlike sheep, grazed, often raising their heads to look around the herd or, in a deep commander’s thoughtfulness, assess the surrounding area.” nine0004

“Shaking with internal sobs, I watched the goat and thought to what extent the Bolsheviks had driven the goats, that they had forgotten all kinship. The proud goat has resigned, cry, Russia!

Goats and Shakespeare

About theft

"Theft is a yearning for creativity, an imitation of creativity. "

North Mimosa

“If they stopped stealing books in a country, then they steal everything else.” nine0004

Night car

About the state and statehood

"Knock down the icicle and think about Russia! What cynicism!

"Thinking about Russia and an American"

“Citizenship is bringing your cigarette butt to the trash can. Statehood is to make sure that the path to the next urn is not too tiring.”

"Traffic light"

“I am afraid that soon our impoverished government will announce a nationwide voluntary fundraising for the construction of the people's guillotine. After that - as it promises - there will be no beggars in the country. In what sense will it not? our impoverished citizens will begin to wonder dejectedly.

Night car

About paranoia

“The extraordinary cheerfulness of the deaf-mutes also aroused suspicion. Such cheerfulness is characteristic of conspirators. But what if a conspiracy of deaf-mutes is brewing in the country to seize power? By the way, the conspiracy of the deaf and dumb is very difficult to expose. This requires deaf-mute informers who enjoy the trust of deaf-mute conspirators and at the same time the trust of Chekists who understand the language of the deaf-mute, but by no means are they. nine0019 The ever-increasing signs of deafness and dumbness of the rulers could lead the deaf-mutes to the idea that this process should be given logical completeness and a dynasty of deaf-mutes should reign in Russia ... "

"The accusation of my lunatic acquaintance, if my memory serves me right, sounded like this: for an attempt to illegally cross the border by air, the scientific inconsistency of which cannot mitigate the criminality of the very idea."

Night car

Valuable tips and suggestions

“Go wash your face and feet. And then put the mousetrap in order. For some reason, our mice got divorced again. By the way, they feel when there is no clarity and firmness in the house.

Fritters of the thirty-seventh year

"Let's talk about things that are optional and therefore pleasant."

"Start"

“In order not to offend a talented person and partly improve the story, the Siberian was advised not to revive the corpse of the guilty forester and pointed out to him that during a forest fire, party members should control the reasonable actions of the people, and not throw themselves into the fire, like enraged old believers.” nine0004

"Oh my patron!"

And other observations

"The cucumber is always eaten cheerfully... and the tomato thoughtfully."

"Chick honors customs"

“The conductor gave us underwear, the blond origin of which could still be guessed behind the persistent swarthyness. ”

"Lying under this shortened sheet, looking at your bare motionless feet, was unpleasant, as if you had become a dead man, while for some reason not losing your aesthetic sense." nine0004

Night car

“The search for Bigfoot,” he said, “is perhaps a man’s longing for his beginning in anticipation of his end. People want to see their distant ancestor in order to try to understand when and where exactly they went crazy.”

"Human station"

“So, when it seems to us to do a good deed, we feel that we are too sober for it, and when in the rarest cases they turn to us for wise advice, it turns out that it is at this hour that we do not knit a bast.” nine0004

"Sandro from Chegem"

Bunin. "The Gentleman from San Francisco"

How Bunin reacted to the Titanic disaster and the First World War, turned to mysticism and signed the verdict of European civilization

Reads Lev Sobolev

How Bunin reacted to the Titanic disaster and the First World War, turned to mysticism and signed the verdict of European civilization

15 minutes

2/7

Vyacheslav Ivanov. "Manada"

How the poet crossed Christ with Dionysus, created a new rhythm and brought the poetry of symbolism out of the Russian porch

Reads Gennady Obatnin

How the poet crossed Christ with Dionysus, created a new rhythm and brought the poetry of symbolism out of the Russian porch

minutes

3/7

Gumilev.

"The Lost Tram" (18+)

How Gumilyov received a message from the future, jumped on the bandwagon of the revolution and became convinced of its inhumanity

Reading by Dmitry Bykov*

How Gumilyov received a message from the future, jumped on the bandwagon of the revolution and became convinced of its inhumanity

16 minutes

4/7

Pogodin. "Aristocrats"

How the comedy about the Gulag was written, became a hit in the Soviet theater, glorified the Chekists and was banned

Reading Ilya Venyavkin

How the comedy about the Gulag was written, became a hit in the Soviet theater, glorified the Chekists and was banned nine0004

11 minutes

5/7

Brodsky. "Christmas Romance"

Why did the poet mix the moon with a star, the New Year with Christmas, and Moscow with Petersburg

Reading Oleg Lekmanov

Why did the poet mix the moon with a star, the New Year with Christmas, and Moscow with Petersburg

13 minutes

6/7

Iskander.

“On a Summer Day”

How the writer deceived the censorship by passing off the KGB as the Gestapo, and interpreted this deception existentially

Reads Alexander Zholkovsky

How the writer deceived the censorship by passing off the KGB as the Gestapo, and interpreted this deception existentially

12 minutes

7/7

Trifonov. “The House on the Embankment”

How Trifonov overstepped his conscience, then mercilessly condemned himself, and at the same time comprehended the mechanisms of political terror

Reads Alexander Arkhangelsky

How Trifonov overstepped his conscience, then mercilessly condemned himself, and at the same time comprehended the mechanisms of political terror

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Oscar Wilde's most witty sayings

On the day of Oscar Wilde's 160th birthday, Gazeta. Ru collected the most ironic aphorisms of the famous English writer, which any modern wit needs to know.

Oscar Wilde lived to be 46 years old, wrote the beautiful Picture of Dorian Gray, nine plays, a dozen fairy tales and short stories, poems and poems, knew how to look like a dandy, think like a philosopher, love like a man and speak like the most witty person in the world. He visited the bottom and the top and taught us that there is nothing more honest than paradoxes - both in life, and in feelings, and in art - only one who knows how to feel irony knows how to feel tenderness. Gazeta.Ru has selected the best quotes from the British classic, which say more about us than we know about ourselves. nine0004

1. Nothing interferes with a romance like a woman's sense of humor and a man's lack of it.

2. To argue is so vulgar. After all, in a decent society they always adhere to the same opinion.

3. In our age, newspapers try to force the public to judge a sculptor not by his sculptures, but by how he treats his wife, an artist by his income, and a poet by the color of his tie.

4. Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - but not friendship. nine0004

5. It's good that you smoke. Every man needs something to do. And there are too many idlers in London.

6. Falling in love begins with the fact that a person deceives himself, and ends with the fact that he deceives another.

7. The main harm of marriage is that it eradicates selfishness from a person. And unselfish people are colorless, they lose their individuality.

8. There are only two real tragedies in life: one is when you don't get what you want, and the second is when you do. nine0004

9. A man always wants to be a woman's first love. They have such ridiculous vanity. Women are more sensitive in such things. They would like to become the last love of a man.

10. The most absurd deeds a person always performs out of the noblest motives.

11. I hope you are not pretending to be an immoral woman when in fact you are a virtuous woman? That would be unforgivable hypocrisy.

12. Every desire that we try to suppress wanders in our soul and poisons us. And having sinned, a person gets rid of the attraction to sin, for realization is the path to purification. After that, only memories of pleasure and the voluptuousness of repentance remain. The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it. nine0004

13. It is senseless to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or boring.

14. Women have an amazing instinct: they are able to detect anything, except for the obvious.

Oscar Wilde wrote his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in 1891. The first film based on the book was made in the 1900s, and in total it was filmed more than 30 times. In 2009, Dorian Gray was released with Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. The image of Dorian Gray sometimes appeared in the cinema not quite canon - for example, in the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, in which he becomes immortal and one of the members of a group of superheroes.

However, the film is not based on Wilde's novel, but on a comic book series. Irish actor Stuart Townsend played Gray. Another favorite work of filmmakers was Wilde's short story "The Canterville Ghost". They took on the story of a ghost almost driven to despair by an American family only at 1940s, but they released about 20 tapes. One of them is a 1996 film, in which Patrick Stewart played the role of a ghost. The Canterville Ghost was not passed by in the USSR either - in 1972, a cartoon by Valentin and Zinaida Bloomberg based on this story was released. Indian Bollywood also filmed this story - in its own way, in the super natural comedy "The Ghost of Nath Villa" (Bhoothnath), which was released in 2008.

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15. Most of the people today die from a creeping form of slavish prudence, and everyone realizes too late that the only thing you will never regret is our mistakes and delusions.

16. A person is very embarrassed when he speaks on his own behalf. Give him a mask and he will tell you the whole truth.

17. Always is an empty word. Between caprice and eternal love, the only difference is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

18. Nothing is impossible in Russia, except for reforms. nine0004

19. I am the only person in the world whom I would like to get to know better.

20. All those who were decidedly incapable of learning anything took it upon themselves to teach—this is what crowned our passion for education.

21. In the good old days, writers wrote books, but everyone read them. Now everyone writes books, but no one reads them.

22. Every time someone agrees with me, I feel like I've said something stupid.

23. Vulgarity is simply the behavior of other people. Others are generally a nightmare audience. nine0004

24. It is not his deeds that are true in a person's life, but the legends that surround him.

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100 Inspirational Street Photography Quotes

1My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder. – Abbas

2There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes. – Abraham Lincoln

3I fell in love with taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me, it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance. – Alec Soth

4Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments. – Alex Tehrani

5I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

6It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter. – Alfred Eisenstaedt

7Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. – Alfred Stieglitz

8Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

9Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph. – Andre Kertesz

10The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. – Andy Warhol

11A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. – Annie Leibovitz

12Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

13It’s not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It’s their intimate relations up with it. – Antoine D’Agata

14A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

15Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. – Bruno Barbey

16Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success. – Chase Jarvis

17The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom

18Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. Both meet within soundscapes. – Chien Chi Chang

19When I use the camera, I often feel like I know part of the people or places I come in contact with. – Christophe Agou

20Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick. – Christopher Anderson

21Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

22Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. – Cornell Capa

23We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

24Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly

25Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. – David Alan Harvey

26I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with photography. It’s a one-eyed man looking through a little ‘ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that? – David Hockney

27Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. – Diane Arbus

28I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job. – Don McCullin

29The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. – Dorothea Lange

30All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice. – Elliott Erwitt

31For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. – Emment Gowin

32Best wide angle lens? Two steps backward.

33A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away. – Eudora Welty

34If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. – Eve Arnold

35I have always been very interested in photography. I have looked at far more photographs than I have paintings. Because their reality is stronger than reality itself. – Francis Bacon

36I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. – Garry Winogrand

37Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

38A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw

39Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

40If you own an oven it does not make you a top chef. Likewise, if you own a camera, it does not make you a professional photographer. – Giles Christopher

41I don’t care so much anymore about ‘good photography’; I am gathering evidence for history. – Gilles Peress

42The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. – Gordon Parks

43A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars. – Guy Le Querrec

44I guess I’ve shot about 40,000 negatives and of these, I have about 800 pictures I like. – Harry Callahan

45Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images. – Helen Levitt

46Look, I’m not an intellectual, I just take pictures. – Helmut Newton

47Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

48To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

49A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. – Irving Penn

50If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it. – Jay Maisel

51If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic. – Jean Paul Sartre

52You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. – Joel Meyerowitz

53What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger

54I have a very good memory, but it’s short. Thank god for photography. – John E. Burkowski

55Photography cannot do much. It provides some level of information, yet it has no pretensions about changing the world. – John Vink

56What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

57Ultimately photography is about who you are. It’s the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit. – Leonard Freed

58Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. – Lewis Carroll

59I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. – Mahatma Gandhi

60In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion. – Man Ray

61Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. – Marc Riboud

62You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain

63With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society’s natural prejudice and giving this a twist. – Martin Parr

64Photograph the world as it is. Nothing’s more interesting than reality.

65A decisive moment stops movement but also provokes thought. – Matt Black

66Buy a good pair of comfortable shoes, have a camera around your neck at all times, keep your elbows in, be patient, optimistic and don’t forget to smile. – Matt Stuart

67For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me. – Mikhael Subotzky

68I’m always mentally photographing everything as practice. – Minor White

69Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. – Morley Baer

70Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

71The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. – Oscar Wilde

72In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

73It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are. – Paul Caponigro

74I want the viewers to be moved into the lives of the people that they are looking at, the visual experience is incredibly emotional. – Paul Fusco

75Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase. – Percy W. Harris

76A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. – Raghu Rai

77We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us. – Ralph Hattersley