Photography Quotes · Page 131

It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'

— David Seltzer

I was interested in photography from my college days and wanted to become a cinematographer.

— Rao Ramesh

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

— Stephen Sondheim

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.

— Willy Ronis

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

— Lewis Hine

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

— Stanley Kubrick

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is…

— William Eggleston

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just…

— Dorothea Lange

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is…

— Duane Michals

I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are…

— Stephen Shore

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order…

— Loretta Lux

I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of…

— Alexandra Breckenridge

All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to…

— Robert Drew

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

“I’m not surprised he decided he wants to take pictures for a living. When we were kids, Jamie was always playing with…

— Akemi Dawn Bowman

My Dad took a workshop from a photographer who worked at the Toledo Blade, a newspaper I delivered. I knew this photographer's…

— Sam Abell

Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only…

— William Wegman

Most musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night. They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

Theres no such thing as Flickr Pro because today, with cameras as pervasive as they are, theres no such thing, really, as…

— Marissa Mayer

I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves…

— Laurie Simmons

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me…

— MC Hammer

I like to try to capture places that a lot of people went to or have a deep emotional connection to. Malls,…

— Seph Lawless

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

Instagram is great but I'm not an amazing photographer and I don't wanna post selfies constantly.

— Shannon Purser

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

— Jock Sturges

“Life is a photo album half black and white half color.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

— Bob Gill

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

— Todd Hido

When the cameras are there all the time you know, it's hard and you can't forget about them.

— Victoria Silvstedt

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

— David LaChapelle

I don't know how much longer I can go on without my becoming known as 'the camera woman.'

— Mariette Hartley

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

— Salman Rushdie

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

— Chuck Close

Someone is always taking a video of me or snapping a photo.

— GloZell

Media today is even more black and white, then early photography ever was

— Loesje

“You have reached the edge of the world. Please stand behind the barrier and take no photo.”

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

— Chris Jordan

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

— Austin O'Malley