Photography Quotes · Page 27

You cannot accurately remember color ...

— Jay Maisel

“art is risk made visible”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

— Robert Adams

Our best pictures happen by grace.

— Joyce Tenneson

I try to find the picture, not create it.

— Sante D'Orazio

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

— Jourdan Dunn

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

— Kate Seredy

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

— Piet Mondrian

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

— David Hockney

“Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-sized holes”

— Andrea Gibson

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

— Zak Bagans

People are narcissistically obsessed with taking pictures of everything they eat.

— Topaz Page-Green

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

— Laurel Nakadate

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

— Kathy Ireland

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

— Juergen Teller

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our…

— Melina Marchetta

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

— David Leitch

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

— Philippe Kahn

I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

— John Constable

I think people took a while to accept me for who I am, and I've learnt to articulate myself better when on…

— Monica Galetti

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right…

— Ken Rockwell

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in…

— Walker Evans

Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

— Leon Golub

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at…

— John Sexton

A photographic session is a joint, interpersonal exchange, a kind of creative encounter session at a high level of intensity. For me,…

— Norman Seeff

I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything…

— Josef Koudelka

As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before…

— Jay Maisel

Nature photography... that acknowledges what is wrong, is admittedly sometimes hard to bear - it has to encompass our mistakes. Yet in…

— Robert Adams

Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the…

— Dee Rees

Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"…

— Walker Evans

“Jay Maisel always says to bring your camera, ‘cause it’s tough to take a picture without it. Pursuant to the above aforementioned…

— Joe McNally

I Love photographing. It’s that simple.

— Stuart Franklin

One picture can tell a thousand words.

— Cher-rie Ireland

I know there are thousands of images of me.

— Stevie Wonder

What if mirrors and photographs are only illusions?

— Anonymous

Instantaneity is photography.

— Edgar Degas

Smile for the camera handsome :)

— Natalya Johnson

The best photographs are made by the best people.

— Morley Baer

“Things that are done secretly are done in camera.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson