Photography Quotes · Page 148

“Every picture ever taken is a fraction of a second, frozen in time forever.”

— G.J. Walker-Smith

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

— David Lynch

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

— Sebastiao Salgado

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

— Eugene Atget

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

— Karan Patel

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

— Todd Hido

In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

— Wright Morris

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to…

— Sam Abell

I expect that people are going to feel differently about that once they're aware that AI systems can watch through a camera…

— Stuart J. Russell

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but…

— Shemar Moore

Sometimes love is like photography. You can't have the light without the dark, pain without happiness, and tears without the laughing after.

— Amanda Day

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own…

— Dorothea Lange

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

— Allan Dwan

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

— Josef Koudelka

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status…

— Fred Ritchin

For me the most important thing to do in a selfie is to have an opinion and to say something with the…

— Nigel Barker

I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery.…

— Jeff Vespa

[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot…

— Garry Winogrand

You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look…

— Eliot Porter

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my…

— Sally Mann

I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,…

— Michael Light

The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as…

— Tina Fey

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

— Harry Callahan

“I believe, in life, there is no such thing as a bad idea. Only ideas that work and ideas that do not.”

— Mandy Baggot

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

— Minor White

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

— Andre Kertesz

I've been in front of the camera the last 20 years, and it's just become a friend.

— Mariette Hartley

If somebody asks for a photo, with a smile, it is nothing.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.

— Om Malik

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

— Diane Arbus

Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back.

— Jay Maisel

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

— John Paul Caponigro

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Dear Bathrooms, You're taking all my business away. Sincerely, Real photo booths

— Ana Chable

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

— Mike Figgis