Photography Quotes · Page 142

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

— Franz Kafka

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

— Steven Wright

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

— Berenice Abbott

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

— Annie Leibovitz

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

— Jules Renard

I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

— Steven Soderbergh

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

— Christopher Nolan

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

— Megan Fox

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is…

— Gordon Parks

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in…

— Chuck Close

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built…

— Steven Klein

People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to…

— Dawoud Bey

We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain,…

— Matthew Heineman

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of…

— Ma Jian

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad…

— Alison Jackson

I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you…

— Annette Messager

I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras,…

— Tom Brokaw

The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of…

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white.…

— David Lynch

“(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting…

— Chip Kidd

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers…

— Drew Carey

It's actually one of the only things that I do that I don't get frustrated over. Everything else I do - racing,…

— Bubba Wallace

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the…

— Walker Evans

It is part of my life, being in front of the camera all the time. It's not something that's new to me.

— Melania Trump

Nature Is The Heart Of The World,Photographers Are The Heart Of The Nature

— Anonymous

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

— Patrick Demarchelier

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

— Garry Winogrand

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

— Jonathan Winters

When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.

— Jamie Hewlett

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

— Keith Carter

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

— Ruth Bernhard

I have an art practice, and I make art and photography and stuff.

— RaMell Ross

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

— Henri Matisse

Challenge: Take an honest selfie. No Edits. No Filters. (: Your beautiful! Embrace it.

— Meee

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

— Ansel Adams

“When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.”

— Abbas Kiarostami

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

— James Nachtwey

That moment when you finally take a decent picture and then as you continue to stare it gets uglier.

— Anonymous