Photography Quotes · Page 51

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

— John Baldessari

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.”

— Tom Ang

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

— John F. Carlson

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

Most photo shoots are a beautiful dress, a natural location, and poses.

— Jenna Dewan

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

— Ranbir Kapoor

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

— Ansel Adams

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart…

— Peter Crouch

All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they…

— Roland Barthes

“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”

— Richard Avedon

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

— Roni Horn

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

— Mike Figgis

“life is like a camera,focus on whats important,capture the good times,develop from negatives and if things don't workout take another shot.”

— Stylegems

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the…

— Ansel Adams

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,…

— Betty White

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I…

— Masi Oka

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car.…

— Lee Friedlander

“You sometimes heard about the marginally talented wives of powerful men publishing children's books or designing handbags or, most commonly, becoming photographers.…

— Meg Wolitzer

Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a…

— Matt Mullenweg

Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise…

— Miles Kington

When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely…

— Ryan Reynolds

“Long before there were digital photos and digital manipulation, there were scissors. A simple pair of scissors could remove history, remove the…

— Mike Hawthorne

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

— Taryn Simon

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

— Patrick Demarchelier

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

— Katherine Waterston

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

— Inge Morath

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

— Frederick Sommer

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

— Diane Arbus

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

— James Nachtwey

I don't like taking pictures or selfies or any of those things, and I'm pretty introverted.

— Janelle James

“Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?”

— Ali Harris

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

— Tommy Mottola

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

— Thomas Leuthard

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

— Fay Godwin

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

— Douglas Kirkland