Photography Quotes · Page 124

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

— Berkeley Breathed

My stylist coached me on how to stand for photos. Always put one leg forward and a hand on your hip.

— Rebecca Gayheart

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

— Arthur Cohn

If you're a guy and 1. Your taking a selfie and 2. Your biting your tongue...you need some serious help

— Anonymous

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

— Gianni Versace

I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.

— Bob Richardson

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Make every picture a #loveselfie and fill every moment with soul.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of…

— Galen Rowell

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an…

— Cindy Sherman

Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

— Julia Stegner

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it.…

— Nate Lowman

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is…

— Bill Henson

In so many instances, there has been an attempt to rewrite history. And many times, on photographs, Martin and I were marching…

— Ralph Abernathy

“The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of…

— David Burnett

I have always felt that a lot of the most interesting work, not just mine but other people's, falls into [the] nether…

— Alex Webb

I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth…

— John Ruskin

“the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to…

— Peter Thiel

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is…

— Sam Abell

When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all…

— Brendan Fletcher

I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or…

— Gerhard

“I pride myself in candidly casting only the finest of souls in my still life play.”

— Jon Luvelli

“You don’t buy photographs from Otto Leipzig, you don’t buy Degas from Signor Benati, follow me?” “Do”

— John le Carré

I love having my picture taken. I love doing interviews.

— Divine

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

— Susan Sontag

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

— Mia Wasikowska

I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.

— Larry Sultan

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the…

— Winston Churchill

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

— Al Gore

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

— Keith Carter

“Pictures of the corners of life that no one else saw.”

— Victoria Dahl

I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!

— Amanda Peet

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

— Jay Maisel

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

— Richard Misrach

Advice to artists: always take the opportunity to shut up.

— Bill Jay

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message

— Anonymous