George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Photography

• A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Maturity, Order

• The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Clothes, Cameras

• I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Snapshots, Painting

• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?
  George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Buttons

• There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Looks, Ridiculous

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