Photography Quotes · Page 69

I vowed to never be on camera down-talking another black man.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

— Howard Hawks

“The whole place was a lost black-and-white photograph.”

— D.M. Pulley

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

— Ida Lupino

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

— David Bailey

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

— Peter Tork

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.

— Fala Chen

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

— Diane Arbus

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera…

— Joseph Monninger

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I…

— Richard Avedon

“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking…

— Kakuzō Okakura

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get…

— Phil Stern

“To deal with the chaos of life, I escape into the prism of glass, dancing to the visual music in my mind.…

— Polly Norman

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

— Damian Loeb

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard…

— Helmut Newton

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status…

— Barbara Kruger

I really don't worry too much about what I see through the viewfinder, at least not at that point, especially if I'm…

— John Divola

I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s]…

— Lisette Model

The older I get, the one thing I can trust in myself more than anything else is the way I feel about…

— Judy Dater

Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home,…

— Marcel Proust

“You are you because you love the way the world looks through your camera. You are you because of the way you…

— A.M. Willard

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got…

— Jeff Vespa

I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens.…

— Eliot Lewis

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

— Janine Turner

A TV camera goes right through your soul. If you're a bad person, people pick that up.

— Roy Clark

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

— Garry Winogrand

Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

— Robert Polidori

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

— Matt Damon

I wish there was a software to photoshop life and became easier than it is now...

— Simphiwe

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

— Peter Lik

“Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.”

— Dara McGrath

“The difference between an amateur and professional photographer is the size of the waste basket”

— Chris Marquardt

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

— Bob Dole

I've turned down many pictures, mostly because I didn't like them.

— Henry Mancini

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

— Bob Anderson

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

— Roy Hodgson