Photography Quotes · Page 133

I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.

— Brigid Berlin

I love photos because they never change even when the person in them does!

— Beckie-Arianne

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

— Neil Armstrong

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

— Joel Sternfeld

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know…

— Annie Leibovitz

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…

— Joan Didion

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model…

— Andre Bazin

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

— Bill Jay

“Is it possible to further improve something excellent? Yes, it is possible and an uber-excellent photo of an excellent view is proof…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We…

— Man Ray

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have…

— Arlo Guthrie

The word 'art' is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one's work. I work for the pleasure, for…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured;…

— Reif Larsen

There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get…

— Gabriel Mann

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to…

— Anton Corbijn

I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a…

— Cornelia Parker

Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but…

— Ray Metzker

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at…

— Dianna Agron

If I could be said to have any kind of aesthetic, it’s sort of a magpie aesthetic—I just go and pick up…

— Sally Mann

My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what…

— David LaChapelle

Imagine if your mirror secretly took snapshots of you and posted it ONLINE.

— Anonymous

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Taking Selfie is a new way of expressing your Emotions.

— Nishan Panwar

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

— Harry Callahan

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

— Ken Rockwell

I don't play it different in front of the camera than I do when no one is around.

— Jerome Bettis

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

— Anonymous

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

— Norman Rockwell

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

— Anne Burrell

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.

— Ashley Olsen

Even if you take picture near washroom, if your beautiful your still beautiful!

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

— Craig Ferguson

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

— Orlando Bloom

I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

— Richard Griffiths