Photography Quotes · Page 37

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

— Alexey Brodovitch

Photography is not a fine art at all.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.

— Eudora Welty

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

— Matthew McConaughey

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

— Roger Ballen

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

— Hiro Murai

Never post boring back-to-back selfies.

— Mary H.K. Choi

I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

— Sophia Amoruso

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

— Gautam Rode

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

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

— Todd Hido

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

— Karan Patel

The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Eugene Atget

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe…

— Vik Muniz

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life…

— Peter Turnley

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

— Damian Loeb

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard…

— Helmut Newton

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I…

— Salt Bae

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject…

— Cole Weston

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun,…

— Eve Arnold

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

— M. C. Escher

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things…

— Saul Leiter

If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn…

— Ed Kashi

For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on…

— James Nachtwey

Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and…

— Emmet Gowin

I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he…

— Kylie Bax

We wonder why black and white pictures capture soul. I think it's cause without color, we aren't drawn to the makup, or…

— Ritu Ghatourey

A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the…

— Stephen Shore

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

— Edward Weston

I try to find the picture, not create it.

— Sante D'Orazio

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

— Jourdan Dunn

Our best pictures happen by grace.

— Joyce Tenneson

“art is risk made visible”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

You cannot accurately remember color ...

— Jay Maisel

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

— Robert Adams

I know there are thousands of images of me.

— Stevie Wonder