Photography Quotes · Page 110

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

— Brooklyn Beckham

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

— Douglas Kirkland

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.

— Raghubir Singh

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

— Paul Morrissey

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

— Allan Sekula

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there…

— Sienna Miller

I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a…

— Pratik Gandhi

The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.

— William S. Burroughs

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their…

— Dorothea Lange

This might seem off the track, but an interesting thing to me that others could talk about better than I, but one…

— Sam Abell

I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was…

— Leslie Cockburn

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My…

— Mary Ellen Mark

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or…

— Idris Khan

It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat,…

— James Wan

PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge.…

— Beanie Sigel

“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of…

— Waswo X Waswo

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock,…

— Edward Weston

Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make…

— Elliott Erwitt

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my…

— Richard Avedon

My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but…

— Dawud Wharnsby Ali

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

— Bob Dylan

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

— Marc Jacobs

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

— Anonymous

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

— Winona Ryder

My mirror and my camera have a completely different idea of what I look like.

— Anonymous

;) As much as I hate pictures of me, I admit this is fun. Lol

— Naquitta Faith

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

— Paul Caponigro

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

— Rene Burri

“Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.”

— Anastasia Hollings

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

— Julie Andrews

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.

— Matt McGorry

“I wasn't just looking at photographs. I was walking through the aftermath of loving her.”

— Aya Canicosa