Photography Quotes · Page 53

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

— Bryan Adams

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

— Lisette Model

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

— Chuck Close

Your beauty captures moments behind the lens, you're more than photogenic.

— Raghib Clitso

That would make a great Instagram photo - me and David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.

— Alexandra Daddario

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

— Charles Osgood

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

— Alix Smith

Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to…

— Amy Webb

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as…

— Coco Rocha

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.

— Ruth Bernhard

“Take a picture. It’ll last longer.” Don’t mind if I do. I’ll wait until you’re asleep and naked, though.”

— K. Webster

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

— Nikki Giovanni

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

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

— Gilles Deleuze

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

— Norman Parkinson

[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at…

— Pedro Meyer

I think when you're photographing - when anybody's photographing another person in a private situation, it's a kind of a seduction but…

— Judy Dater

I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take…

— Joyce Tenneson

Sometimes there are paparazzi that take photos and you don't know they're there. So you're laughing, kicking up your heels and doing…

— Dianna Agron

Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the…

— Tina Modotti

Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but…

— Henry Holmes Smith

Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of…

— Mary Alice

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.…

— Beaumont Newhall

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.

— Lidia Bastianich

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

— Annette Bening

I'm living inside the moment not taking pictures to save it.

— Drake

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

“It was a good picture. You could tell by the amount of time I spent staring at it.”

— Cary Attwell

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

— Ashish Sharma

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

— Sam Abell

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

— Jerome Liebling

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

— Stephen Dorff

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

— Fiona Shaw

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

— David Ayer

I hate when I'm spreading my wings half naked and victorias secret takes a picture of me.

— Luis Penetriado

They say, 'A picture is worth a thousand words,' but when I saw yours, I was speechless.

— Jas&rob

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

— Margaret Atwood

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

— Malick Sidibe