Photography Quotes · Page 134

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

— Edward Weston

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

— Peter Lindbergh

I've realized what I want to do in life in that I just love being in front of the camera.

— Michael Sorrentino

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

— Bill Viola

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

— Gerhard Richter

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

— Richard Avedon

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

— Diane Arbus

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

— Win Butler

Literally, FX is like, 'How can we foster your vision?' My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see…

— Pamela Adlon

For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling…

— Kristen Stewart

The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close…

— William Klein

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going…

— Agnes Varda

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs…

— Jerry Saltz

There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated,…

— Andrew Bujalski

“Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she…

— Whitney Otto

Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death…

— Clyde Butcher

The only advantage of the CD is that you have a booklet that can tell a bit of a story, but the…

— Anton Corbijn

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found…

— Martin Parr

I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from…

— Roland Barthes

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater.…

— Kim Weston

Dates can be important. It's a nice way to remember when I took the photo without having to rack my brain or…

— Ari Marcopoulos

“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have…

— Brassaï

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

— Grant Mudford

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

— Samantha Morton

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

— Annie Leibovitz

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

— Dave Eggers

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

— William Klein

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

— Martin Parr

Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.

— Trevor Paglen

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.

— Brigitte Bardot

Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

— Jay Maisel

Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side.

— Erin Davie

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

— Kerri Green

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

— Jerry Saltz

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

— Jason Mraz

Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

— Marion Cotillard