Photography Quotes · Page 83

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

— Elliott Erwitt

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Quentin Blake

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

— Dara McGrath

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

— Peter Lik

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

— Simphiwe

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

— Bob Dole

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

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.

— Rosalind E. Krauss

The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women…

— Petra Collins

If I put cameras on you every day, you're gonna be emotional and nothing will be perfect. You have to allow people…

— Tinsley Mortimer

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo…

— Tyra Banks

Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and…

— Ernest Borgnine

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks…

— Charles Baudelaire

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have…

— Spike Lee

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware…

— Ruth Bernhard

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of…

— Bill Brandt

I had a name which was a little bit different from Bob Capa. The real name of mine was not too good.…

— Robert Capa

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given…

— Michael Deaver

I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that…

— Ralph Gibson

You ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder, how many strangers…

— One Tree Hill

As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very…

— Duane Michals

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Chris Marquardt

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

— Peter Tork

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

— David Bailey

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

— Ida Lupino

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

— D.M. Pulley

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

— Howard Hawks

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

— Matt Damon

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

— Robert Polidori

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

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

— Janine Turner

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

— Diane Arbus

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

— Fala Chen

Is it weird that I keep posting pictures because I think I'm going to run out in 2.5 seconds

— Me Myself And I

“I've made a picture of the world. It may be right. It may be wrong. But for me it is very real ...”

— Henry Eyring