Photography Quotes · Page 126

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

— Stephen Rea

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

— Laurence J. Peter

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself…

— Freeman Patterson

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

— Jay Maisel

Every time I look at your photos, My eyes get wet my heart say only one thing, Why you have gone ..:(

— Unkown

“I feel exposed. The camera is my nemesis. Right up there with mirrors.”

— Donna Cooner

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

— Nora Ephron

Whether you're walking the catwalk or whether you're in front of the camera, there's no such thing as a signature pose or…

— Lydia Hearst

My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as…

— Kerry James Marshall

I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those…

— Gia Coppola

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

— Berenice Abbott

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them…

— E. J. Hughes

Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in…

— Andreas Gursky

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You…

— Garry Winogrand

Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I…

— Ben Shahn

Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes…

— Ryan Hurst

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are…

— Jordan Bridges

I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really…

— Joe Anderson

The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in…

— Mario Testino

It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason…

— Stephen Chbosky

The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to…

— Michael Craig-Martin

I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of…

— Keith Shackleton

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

— Joyce Tenneson

People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.

— Denzel Washington

I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

— Carnie Wilson

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

— Diane Arbus

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

— David Hockney

Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes.

— Doug Benson

I love being in front of the camera but I love the fact that I have more control as a producer.

— Dia Mirza

People are narcissistically obsessed with taking pictures of everything they eat.

— Topaz Page-Green

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

— Zak Bagans

“Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-sized holes”

— Andrea Gibson

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

— Laurel Nakadate

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

— Juergen Teller

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

— Jamaica Kincaid

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

— Kathy Ireland

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

— August Strindberg