Photography Quotes · Page 57

Photo shoot fresh, looking like wealth. Im bout to call the paparazzi on myself.

— Jay Z

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

— Darren Aronofsky

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

— Marcel Proust

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

— Peter Lindbergh

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

— Horace Pippin

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

— Hilary Mason

“I've seen the photos," he said. "Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.”

— Andrew Pyper

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

— Scott Kelby

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

— James Agee

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I…

— William Klein

Somewhere right now, a girl just uploaded a picture of a place she went to in the past with a caption that…

— Anonymous

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

— Michael Douglas

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

— Andy Grundberg

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

— David Hockney

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever…

— Garry Winogrand

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's…

— Dave McKean

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use…

— Garry Winogrand

When we were making Flickr, we called it the 'Eyes of the World.' The idea was that everybody, everywhere, is looking. It…

— Caterina Fake

I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in…

— Taryn Simon

Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush…

— Justine Kurland

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…

— Carrie Mae Weems

“The camera is an instrument of detection…we photograph what we know and what we don’t know… when I point my camera at…

— Patricia Bosworth

I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial…

— Richard Prince

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

— Andre Bazin

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

— Alexandre Desplat

You aint gotta turn the cameras off, just keep it rolling

— Kid Ink

“A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...”

— J. Buchanan

The only thing I hate are photo shoots. I just hate them. I don't know why I cannot stand them.

— Bradley Cooper

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Lighting is everything in order to get the 'perfect' selfie.

— Alexis Ren

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

— Erma Bombeck

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

— Mati Klarwein

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

— Phyllis Diller

“Anyone can smile for a photo, but who is still smiling after the selfie?”

— Ken Poirot

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

— John Steinbeck

'Fatal Vision' was basically the first thing I did on camera.

— Gary Cole

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

— Brett Weston

I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.

— Katie Holmes