Photography Quotes · Page 72

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

— William Eggleston

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

— Anonymous

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

— Ryan Lewis

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

— Gig Young

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

— Helmut Newton

Anyone with my obsessive attention to detail should never be allowed to own Photoshop.

— Anonymous

“Mystery Ad Thief, Why? Did you not like my picture? Was it such an eyesore, it just had to go?”

— Anyta Sunday

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

— Edward Weston

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures…

— Rankin

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

— Bruce Campbell

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I…

— Nan Goldin

There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use…

— Jay Maisel

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

— Minor White

“Photography is the play of light, the dance of shadows, the song of exposure, and the story of the moment.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all…

— Joe McNally

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality,…

— Juergen Teller

What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are…

— Sylvia Plachy

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems…

— Trevor Paglen

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do…

— Gilles Peress

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred…

— Lance Ito

Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something…

— Elliott Erwitt

It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing,…

— Suzanne Collins

I dont have a problem with taking photos on phones as they are pretty good quality now. But if you are really…

— Mary McCartney

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

— Kim Weston

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

— Derek Cianfrance

We are gathered here today to take photos of the President pretending to mourn.

— Dead Kennedys

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

— Rene Crevel

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

— Francis Bacon

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

— Christina Ricci

Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.

— Sabrina Carpenter

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

— Mark Twain

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

— Carson Wentz

I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

— Colman Domingo

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

— Boris Becker

Hearing a camera shutter noise in a public bathroom can never be for anything normal.

— Anonymous

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

— Rene Burri

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand