Photography Quotes · Page 138

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

— Robert Smithson

I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

— Tyra Banks

Photographs... are the most curious indicators of reality.

— Erica Jong

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

— Bill Wyman

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive.

— Rose Kennedy

Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!

— Philippe Kahn

I'm happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn't know it until I got up there.

— Arjun Kapoor

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

— Steve Rushin

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed.…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to…

— Hilary Hahn

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of…

— Susan Sontag

The picture can tells thousand of words, but your memories in that event are enough to fill thousand of buckets.

— Nathaniel Quimada

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the…

— W. C. Sellar

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

— Howard Hodgkin

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

— Ralph Gibson

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also…

— Giles Duley

The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working…

— Jerry Uelsmann

Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific…

— Diane Arbus

People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would…

— Emma Watson

Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of…

— Minor White

The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence…

— Paul Strand

One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality…

— Rostam Batmanglij

...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of…

— Beat Streuli

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

— Karl Pilkington

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“Taking a lot of selfies doesn’t mean you live an examined life.”

— Gina Barreca

If you take photos, don't speak, don't write, don't analyze yourself, and don't answer any questions.

— Robert Doisneau

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

— Steve McCurry

When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.

— Susan Sontag

Tumblr picture in reality (top is me) ;o Photo creds to my sister cx

— Rayy

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

— Chuck Connors

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

— Fantastic Negrito

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

— Catherine Opie

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

— Wanda Koop

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

— David Bailey

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

— Mary Ellen Mark

It was many years ago when I started shooting and I took it up as a complete hobby and a pastime.

— Abhinav Bindra

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

— Nigella Lawson