Photography Quotes · Page 236

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She…

— Sylvia Plath

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

— Annie Leibovitz

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's…

— Diane Arbus

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to…

— Drew Carey

Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how…

— Anne-Marie

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is…

— Mario Sorrenti

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

— Nan Goldin

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

— Penny Marshall

Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a…

— Torbjørn Rødland

When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd…

— Eddie Trunk

I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography]…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Every time she heard the click of the shutter, followed by that faint rustle, she remembered when she used to catch grasshoppers…

— Paolo Giordano

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has…

— Gisele Freund

The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it…

— Thomas Roma

I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious…

— William Eggleston

After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have…

— Patti Smith

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking…

— Josef Koudelka

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it.…

— John Steinbeck

I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was.

— David Lynch

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

— Garry Winogrand

They are the proof of something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling.…

— Diane Arbus

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

— Chuck Close

Make no mistake: Bob Ritchie's up early in the morning taking pictures of his son on the first day of his senior…

— Kid Rock

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really…

— James Taylor

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

— Norman Parkinson

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference…

— Gilles Deleuze

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I…

— Art Alexakis

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and…

— Orson Welles

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

If 5 seconds of smile can make a photograph more beautiful. Then just imagine if you keep always smiling how beautiful your…

— Babloo

Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image…

— Constantine Manos

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the…

— Andy Grundberg

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait…

— Galen Rowell

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break…

— Peter Menzel

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

— Joe McNally