Photography Quotes · Page 68

Life is like photography, you develop from the negatives

— Latest

I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.

— Kim Weston

Expensive gear helps for night shots, but I wouldn't recommend beginners overspend on a camera.

— Tom Anderson

“Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

— Francis Bacon

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

— Don McCullin

Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become…

— David Ignatius

All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something…

— Hugh Grant

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

— Steven Sebring

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were,…

— Thomas Demand

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

— Susan Sontag

You can't do shiny skin for high-definition cameras without it looking awful. HD shows off all of your imperfections. Even selfies require…

— Pat McGrath

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our…

— Gerhard Richter

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

— Oscar Wilde

I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who…

— Veruschka von Lehndorff

The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference…

— John Szarkowski

It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like,…

— Michael Shannon

As the photographer, it's challenging to make images that read quickly and are powerful, but have enough humanity and compassion. I've worked…

— Stephanie Sinclair

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography…

— Paul Caponigro

I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where…

— Candida Hofer

I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll…

— Marshall Curry

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find…

— Christine Elise

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

— Andy Warhol

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

— Tallulah Bankhead

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

— David LaChapelle

The awkward moment when your friend crops you out of a photo.

— Anonymous

Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.

— Matt Walsh

I am a bit of a lad but don't tell: it will ruin my image!

— Rylan Clark-Neal

When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much.

— Jamel Shabazz

I love camera, make-up and everything about the industry.

— Ravi Kishan

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

“For images, of the one kind or of the other, will come; we cannot jump off our own shadow. As”

— C.S. Lewis

Those embaressing VIDEOS of you & your friends.. trying to take a picture. d:

— Anonymous

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

— Pablo Picasso

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

— William Klein

“A portrait can change its character depending on where it is placed and what light it receives.”

— Gabriella Bennett

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

— Bruce Pavitt

Focus is not a camera issue or a problem with your eyes. Focus is what I'm about to do. - Novi Novak

— Novi Novak