Photography Quotes · Page 105

As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?

— Eddie Mair

You can change the frame but the picture remains the same

— Anonymous

The camera is to the Photographer what the pen is to the Writer: a tool to express a vision

— Myriam Leforestier

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

— Cilla Black

Everyone always told me I was fated to be in front of the camera.

— Jesse Bradford

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

— Ritu Ghatourey

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

— Geri Halliwell

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

— Marc Riboud

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even…

— Steven Bochco

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of…

— Ari Marcopoulos

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

— David LaChapelle

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a…

— Andre Derain

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle…

— Gilles Peress

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot -…

— Tyson Chandler

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

— Annie Leibovitz

I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read…

— Hans Frank

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the…

— Susan Sontag

“Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously?…

— Shannon Noelle Long

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as…

— Richard Avedon

“Scanning my memory for children I know, I throw it down. It turns in midair, landing facedown on the counter, and it’s…

— Anonymous

The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster…

— Wynn Bullock

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for…

— Susan Sontag

What's hilarious is people taking photos and they think you don't know. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Like taking a…

— Will Poulter

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

— James Nachtwey

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close

What you're shooting at doesn't matter, the real question is: 'Does it give you joy?'

— Jay Maisel

I relax more when I'm behind the camera than anything else. I love that.

— Patrick Leahy

I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

— Daniel Berehulak

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

— Bill Jay

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.

— Mary Hart

“Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA.”

— Don DeLillo

“A photograph, the less you see it, the more you understand.”

— teana74

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.

— William Klein

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

— Marc Chagall

Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

— Fred Picker

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

— Robert Capa

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

— John Updike

Pictures are pictures, and they can be made to look like whatever they want to.

— Greg Hardy