Photography Quotes · Page 147

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

— Jacob Collins

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

— David Doubilet

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

— Gene Tierney

People always told me photos have been done. My feeling was, these people are wrong.

— Kevin Systrom

It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

— Rita Ora

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

— Doris Lessing

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

— Leanna Renee Hieber

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

“A picture is a reflection of the dreams, vision, missions and goals hidden within. Look beyond what you see.”

— Proud Chocolate

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have…

— James Pearse Connelly

I have been in public for a long time, so the camera was never an issue for me. I am very comfortable…

— Anoushka Shankar

I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I…

— Crystal Renn

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've…

— J. R. Moehringer

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to…

— William Wegman

I never expected a camera was going to follow all of my moves, and that was surprising when I saw it for…

— Yalitza Aparicio

I am not much interested in discovering new territories to photograph. Instead, what I wish my pictures could do is lessen the…

— Mark Klett

The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a…

— Phoebe Fox

My relationship to photography growing up was like, the idea of photojournalism or newspapers - it's far less art or marketing. It…

— RaMell Ross

I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing…

— Doug Jones

Everybody does that now. We all take pics... you do the same with holiday photos. You record something to look back on…

— Dylan Moran

Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to…

— Rachel Nichols

After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was…

— Wright Morris

There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when…

— Annie Sprinkle

There is a beauty of seeing a picture and making out what the story behind it might be.

— Gautam Rode

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

— Sophia Amoruso

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

— Kristen Wiig

Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference

— Robert Frank

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

— Bill Jay

Youre beautiful until your Photo-shop 30 day trial has gone.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I enjoy Instagram because it is a visual medium platform, with more photographs.

— Ishaan Khatter

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

— Rita Ora

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

— Jay Maisel

“[134] West, Nancy Martha, “Kodak and The Lens of Nostalgia” The University Press”

— Nir Eyal

Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.

— Alice McCall

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

— Annie Leibovitz

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

— Ben Shahn

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

— Gordon Parks

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

In the scheme of things, I'm just a guy who gets my picture taken.

— Nick Wooster