Photography Quotes · Page 101

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

— Edward Abbey

“We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.”

— Chris Lynch

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

— Edwin Land

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

— Josef Koudelka

This camera sucks for quality but its a recent picture of me soooooo HERE!!

— Jon Hawes

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

— China Machado

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

— Steffi Graf

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

— Dorothy Parker

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at…

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

— Emily Procter

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see…

— Mitch Hedberg

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we…

— Barbara Kruger

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

— David Hockney

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you…

— Marisa Silver

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking…

— Orlando Bloom

I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would…

— Gia Carangi

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a…

— John Sexton

“And I give you this picture because it fairly captures our nearly fifty-year happy marriage, during which I have offered up an…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the…

— Nancy Mitford

Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind,…

— Eddie Adams

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the…

— David Travis

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the…

— Roland Barthes

“It would be a shame if you didn't applaud the photographer when you saw a beautiful photo; but you should applaud not…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

— Demetri Martin

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Every photography is an open ended visual statement.”

— Ellis Mbeku

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

— Douglas McCulloh

I prefer to be at home with my husband and children than attacked by photographers.

— Caroline, Princess of Hanover

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

— Sebastiao Salgado

“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

— Mark Twain

On 'The City,' I allowed the cameras more into my life and I ended up exactly where I was meant to be.

— Whitney Port

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

— Elliott Erwitt

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

— David Hurn

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler

I love that I have no inhibitions. I like to be shameless in front of the camera.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

— John Newman

Once you learn how to free up in front of the camera, it's like nothing else.

— William Jackson Harper