Photography Quotes · Page 85

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

— Sigmar Polke

“Knowing the right timings, good photographs. Learning from bad timings, better photographs.”

— Kowtham Kumar K

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

— Aaron Siskind

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

— Robert Capa

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

— Peta Wilson

“What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!”

— Renita D'Silva

There're only a few photographers I've ever felt really comfortable with.

— Michael Keaton

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.

— Drew Barrymore

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult…

— William Osler

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I…

— Barbara Kruger

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

— Jack Welpott

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you…

— David Hockney

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

— Brassai

I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

— Robert Barry

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to…

— Richard Avedon

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

— Martin Parr

I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to…

— Seamus McGarvey

I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid…

— John Currin

I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.…

— Luc Delahaye

“I had long since managed a degree of detachment when dealing with photographs from homicide cases. They no longer upset me as…

— Ann Rule

We've got pictures from the Space Station going back 20 years. We can see the glaciers receding in the photography that we…

— Shannon Walker

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can…

— Minor White

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also…

— Trevor Paglen

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and…

— Annie Leibovitz

Sometimes if you're too shiny they can't even edit it out of photos. You don't want that.

— Tom Sandoval

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

— Ajay Naidu

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”

— Agatha Christie

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

— John McTiernan

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

— Teju Cole

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

— Garry Winogrand

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

— James Nachtwey

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

— Deidre Hall

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

— Annie Leibovitz

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

— Carine Roitfeld

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

— Lillian Bassman

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

— Edward Weston

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

— Anyta Sunday

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

— Derek Cianfrance

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

— Kim Weston

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

— Helmut Newton