Photography Quotes · Page 58

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

— Emmet Gowin

BF msg 2 his Gf: Baby Sorry 2 Disturb u. can u send Me Ur Photo? Its Urgent Serious matter

— Anonymous

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

— John Gossage

I started shooting for 'Photograph' right after 'Dangal' so, it's really special for me.

— Sanya Malhotra

I wanted to be a rocker and photographer and tour the world!

— Ludovico Einaudi

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

— E. J. Hughes

It has taken a long time for me to be able to really just be in front of the camera.

— James Purefoy

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

— Sam Abell

“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't…

— John Green

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the…

— Robert Breault

I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I'm still getting selfied. It's nice, though. It's a nice…

— Sadiq Khan

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

— Loretta Lux

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the…

— Charles Sheeler

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do…

— John Szarkowski

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

— Emily Weiss

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to…

— Gregory Heisler

The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your…

— Leonard Nimoy

My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind…

— Godfrey Gao

I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake,…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you]…

— Joe McNally

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except,…

— John Loengard

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…

— W. Eugene Smith

“Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the…

— Moyra Davey

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

— Mason Cooley

Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

— Andrea Gibson

I'm already dreading having to look at your pictures...

— Anonymous

Toward the tail end of 'Challengers,' Zendaya got me into photography.

— Mike Faist

I'm trying to fix your mother's camera. Easy, easy - Hmmm. I think I need a bigger drill.

— Nikhil Saluja

A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic.

— Barack Obama

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.

— Sam Abell

I am a shy person who is not very okay with the camera.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

— Annie Leibovitz

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

— Robert Capa

The best things happen when you just happen to be somewhere with a camera.

— Elliott Erwitt

I was bored so I thought hey why not pictureee timee :3

— David Jesus Torres

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

— Irving Penn

BOY: Can I have a photo of you? GIRL: Why? BOY: So I can show Santa what I want for Christmas.

— Anonymous

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

— Gerhard Richter