Photography Quotes · Page 118

Hearing a camera shutter noise in a public bathroom can never be for anything normal.

— Anonymous

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

— Carson Wentz

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

— Colman Domingo

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

— Boris Becker

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

— Mark Twain

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

— Christina Ricci

I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing…

— Ami Vitale

“Pictures capture a single frame, but great photographers reveal the stories waiting to be discovered within.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar…

— Patti Smith

I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it…

— John Gruber

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and…

— Sean Penn

One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will…

— Gretchen Rubin

We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And…

— Stuart Franklin

Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do…

— Leonard Nimoy

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They…

— Walter Lippmann

Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel,…

— Louis Aragon

“LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of…

— David Foster Wallace

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the…

— Gustave Le Bon

For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights…

— Robert Keith Leavitt

Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it…

— Douglas Crimp

Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you…

— Jay Maisel

Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.

— Sabrina Carpenter

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

— Francis Bacon

We are gathered here today to take photos of the President pretending to mourn.

— Dead Kennedys

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

— Rene Crevel

Everyone has photographic memory; some just don't have the film.

— Anonymous

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

— William Shirley

“never did anything conventional. Her photos are brilliant, quite honestly.”

— Kate Perry

I would not have been comfortable in front of the camera.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.

— William Sadler

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

— Tom Gruber

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

— Meggie Royer

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

— The Weeknd

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

— Debra Winger

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

— Frederick Sommer

Is it just me, or is Instagram just Auto-Tune for photos?

— Anonymous