Photographing Quotes · Page 2

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

— Minor White

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

— Kim Weston

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

— Sebastiao Salgado

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

— Sam Abell

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

— Sally Mann

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

— Judith Butler

I think, if my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me.

— Christy Turlington

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

— Josef Koudelka

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

— Vito Acconci

I always prefer photographing in available light – or Rembrandt-light I like to call it – so you get the natural modulations…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photographing plants makes you look carefully and become aware of the many solutions plants provide to human problems

— Andrea Jones

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have…

— Steve McCurry

The more you do, the more you realize there is to do, what a vast object the metropolis is, and how the…

— Berenice Abbott

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was…

— Helmut Newton

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from…

— Imogen Cunningham

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

— Alec Soth

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

— Steven Sebring

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a…

— Helmut Newton

I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep…

— Louie Schwartzberg

Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame.…

— Rondal Partridge

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re…

— Duane Michals

In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people's homes,…

— Jim Goldberg

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best…

— Devendra Banhart

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing…

— Brian Skerry

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I…

— Bill Brandt

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

— James Nachtwey

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

— Shania Twain

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

— Jessica Lange

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

— David LaChapelle

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

— Mona Kuhn

I love photographing people in New York; it has such a great cross-section of people from all over the world.

— Mary McCartney

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

— Yousuf Karsh

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.

— Tom Selleck

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

— Sam Abell

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.

— Bruce Gilden