Photography Quotes · Page 130

If someone is wearing something terrific, that's what I want to photograph.

— Bill Cunningham

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

— Lance Ito

I'm one of nine children, and I have a lot of pictures.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…

— Weegee

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

— Sydney Pollack

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

— David Hockney

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

— David Bailey

We have a camera pretty much everywhere except the restrooms, which we probably are working on that right now.

— Giuliana Rancic

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the…

— Lee Friedlander

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet…

— Jann Wenner

I love the digital camera because it makes shooting easier and economical. I shoot fast, and I can shoot a lot. I…

— Anurag Kashyap

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should…

— Alexey Brodovitch

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that…

— Minor White

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say…

— Carine Roitfeld

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight'…

— Joel Sternfeld

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going…

— Alison Jackson

The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial…

— Siegfried Kracauer

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was…

— Fay Wray

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely…

— Gerhard Richter

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching…

— Shomei Tomatsu

In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after…

— George Lucas

I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

— Anonymous

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

— David Hockney

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

— John Baldessari

If you looked up the definition of a third wheel, you would see a picture of me.

— Anonymous

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I loved you more than I love myself and life. In the end all I've left is your photograph

— Jeremy Limn

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

— Howard Hodgkin

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

— Gaspard Ulliel

The rarest sight in the world is a woman who is happy with photographs of herself.

— Nikhil Saluja

I'm very camera shy, but I realise it's important to promote films.

— Prabhu Deva

“This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.”

— Jane Alison

John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work.

— Mitt Romney

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

— Marty Stuart

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

— Harold Feinstein

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

“An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan