Photography Quotes · Page 136

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

— Lewis Hine

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

— Helmut Newton

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

— Matthew Modine

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

— Carine Roitfeld

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

— Minor White

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

— Petra Nemcova

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to…

— Berenice Abbott

I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that…

— Vincente Minnelli

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

— Ai Weiwei

One day I'd love to hire a space shuttle fly in to space and hover above the earths atmosphere. Just so I…

— Ryan Swain

It's hard to understand why just walking around for two hours and taking pictures would be just a big deal, but once…

— Scott Kelby

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into…

— E. J. Hughes

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

— Mark Carwardine

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

— Henry Van Dyke

This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated…

— Yukio Mishima

Everyone has a mobile phone with a camera; every phone can record video. You have to be prepared to be captured. It's…

— Ranveer Singh

My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was…

— Jeff Vespa

Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this…

— Willi Munzenberg

“Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty…

— Lance Reynald

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It…

— George Sarton

1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as…

— Babette Mangolte

There are things that happen so quickly. A better cameraman can capture them, but if the light is not bright and you…

— Henry Rollins

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

— Diane Arbus

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

— Henry Louis Gates

There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment.

— Jeanloup Sieff

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

— Rohit Shetty

“pictures. One before them too, that, however briefly,”

— Emylia Hall

If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

— Matt Lauer

We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.

— Pooja Bhatt

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.

— Ernst Haas

Taking a picture with my friends takes hours because if someone looks bad it MUST be deleted.

— Xuan Ta

“you don’t need photos to remember the people who matter to you.”

— Isabel Allende

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

— Chandra Wilson

If I enter a set, I am all over the place and be in my zone once the camera is on.

— Divya Agarwal

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

— Garry Winogrand

“First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.”

— Sameh Talhamy

A visual image is a simple thing, a picture that enters the eyes.

— Roy H. Williams