Photography Quotes · Page 164

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...

— Fred Hoyle

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at…

— Evelyn Waugh

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art…

— Ansel Adams

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

— Susan Sontag

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

— Edward Weston

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

— Laurie Simmons

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I…

— Leelee Sobieski

Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This…

— Vincent Laforet

I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm…

— Ezra Koenig

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the…

— August Sander

You have to wait a few days in between selfies. I know people who post multiple in a day, and some of…

— Ariana Grande

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things -…

— Carine Roitfeld

Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it…

— Miroslav Tichy

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.…

— Douglas Crimp

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person…

— Barbara Degenevieve

From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of…

— Henri Matisse

If your image is going out to people, you have a duty to make it the best it can be. That's why…

— Chris Eubank Sr

I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and…

— Roy Choi

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that…

— Melvin Van Peebles

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

— Irving Penn

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and…

— Lorde

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer…

— Roy DeCarava

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of…

— Eliot Porter

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

— Roger Ballen

You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot…

— Gerald Green

I have my own issues, do I take photos of it and show it to the world? No. Do I parade it…

— Alec

Millions of unnecessary photos are taken every day. People stand before the Pyramids and photograph them, when for three cents they could…

— Edouard Boubat

They found a scrapbook with photos of Osama bin Laden from the '90s, and they're studying each and every photo very, very…

— David Letterman

[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.…

— Tina Barney

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured…

— Christian Metz

Here is, again, my best friend Destiny. The one who hates cameras with all her life. The one who doesn't believe in…

— Amber Hope

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked…

— Nicole Krauss

When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with…

— Anonymous

“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.”

— Maggie O'Farrell

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

— Max Irons

“I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term "suitable for framing" should have a stricter definition.”

— Alex Bosworth

Take photos with hater n-ggas and crop them. I am not them. I photoshop them out cause they dont understand what Im…

— Drake

As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I…

— Mary Pilon