Photography Quotes · Page 122

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

— James Whistler

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

— William Klein

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

— Salvador Dali

A photographer must choose a palette as painters choose theirs.

— Joel Sternfeld

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

— Giles Duley

“Photos I’m not in and memories we don’t share, haunt my lonely eyes.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.

— Bill Eppridge

I made a couple of pictures that weren't even Bs. They were Zs.

— Amanda Blake

I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable…

— Peter Jackson

None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your…

— Michael Langford

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a…

— Larry Clark

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for…

— Frank Gohlke

Everyone has days where they wake up and feel like poo and don't want to see people, let alone be on camera.

— Phoebe Dynevor

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why…

— Leonard Nimoy

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to…

— George W. Bush

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer…

— Joel Sartore

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up…

— Jose Parla

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like…

— Irving Penn

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual…

— Christian Metz

I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing…

— Danielle Arbid

“A scan of the walls had the grin turning to a wince. Blue ribbons, medals, awards were all neatly framed and displayed.There…

— Nora Roberts

I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can't…

— Ezra Koenig

I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is…

— Jeff Vespa

Words are difficult and photography takes the words away from things. It's difficult to talk about something that seems to come very…

— Daria Werbowy

Me personally, I just wanted to do that to capture These Days.With DAY-lyt.

— Ab-Soul

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

— Patti Smith

The camera is the least important element in photography.

— Julius Shulman

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Take a look at your picture, Sometimes in the heart or legs, you have to decide

— Mak_786

Being on camera, you have a responsibility to look good. If you don't, you'll hear about it.

— Jennifer Lopez

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

— David Bailey

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It took me a while to feel comfortable in front of the camera and so I just needed to do it a…

— Jeremy Sisto

I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.

— Robert Barry

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

— Annie Lennox

There is something timeless and beautiful about cooking straight to camera.

— Roy Choi

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

— Laura Linney

A hidden camera can only be a good journalist's last resort. But sometimes, it's the only option.

— Barkha Dutt

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

— Minor White

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

— Sam Abell