Photography Quotes · Page 66

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

— Garry Winogrand

I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.

— Lily Allen

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera,

— James Gandolfini

People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.

— Megan McKenna

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

— Richard Avedon

Being in the public eye and seeing yourself on film and in photographs, that can be tough.

— Lauren Ash

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

— Andrea Arnold

I've already had our picture in a frame. but you started playing games so I watched it burn with your games.

— Tatyana Matias

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

— Douglas Kirkland

For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder… At this size they're edible. You don't…

— Judy Fiskin

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

— Julius Shulman

I don't click pictures. People carry a camera with them while travelling, take pictures, keep them as memories, but I don't. I…

— Katrina Kaif

I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

— Hannah Gadsby

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing,…

— Paul Strand

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

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

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

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

— Kylie Bax

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

“For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply…

— Annie Leibovitz

Being in front of the camera is a lot of hard work, and I'm not cut out for it.

— Gauri Khan

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

— Jessica Lange

If you want to learn what someone fears losing,watch what they photograph.

— Anonymous

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

— Lena Dunham

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

“Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.”

— Carolyn V. Hamilton

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

— Drew Carey

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

— Martin Parr

I'd be a really boring person to have cameras around all day.

— Holly Branson

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera”

— Lewis Hine

“I photograph you every morning In a cruel attempt to capture A formal souvenir of what I love”

— Susan Rich

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann