Photography Quotes · Page 132

“Our photographs often live longer than us! Not forever, but only longer!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

— Edward Ruscha

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

— David Duchovny

If you take photographs, dont speak, dont write, dont analyse yourself, and dont answer any questions.

— Robert Doisneau

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

— Whitney Houston

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

— David Attenborough

“God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.”

— Mark Denman

“Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.”

— Daniel J. Rice

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I…

— Cornell Capa

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

— Alison Jackson

I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love…

— Uta Barth

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the…

— Lewis Carroll

“There are times when one is with their camera that beautiful and magical things will come into view. Do not let them…

— Christopher Paul Flateau

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love…

— Jeff Bridges

There is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on…

— Richard Quest

“I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past”

— John Green

“You can often get this effect by setting your lens to its smallest aperture - usually f22 or greater. You can shoot…

— Dan Eitreim

I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re…

— William Eggleston

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked…

— Mario Testino

Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the…

— Susan Sontag

You have a negative, and you can have an influence whether you want to have it more contrasty or less contrasty; you…

— Juergen Teller

The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal…

— Philip Pearlstein

“Courbet’s Meeting[1], for example, was clearly based on a prototype in popular imagery [2]: yet Courbet observed the countryside around Montpellier with…

— Linda Nochlin

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or,…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

— Luigi Ghirri

“If you think buying a DSLR has made you a photographer, don't ever buy a Stethoscope.”

— Ketan Waghmare

Talking with pictures and making memories is universally appealing.

— Evan Spiegel

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

— Liane Moriarty

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

— Marcel Proust

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

— Arthur Rothstein

Having a camera in your home is difficult when you aren't in a good mood!

— Jill Zarin

“A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”

— John Singer Sargent

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

— Henri Matisse

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

— Robert Adams

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

— Elliott Erwitt

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

— Robert Collier

Cool things happen when I'm not having the camera..:(

— Asli

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

— Annie Wersching