Photography Quotes · Page 87

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

— Carson Wentz

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Sabrina Carpenter

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

— Christina Ricci

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Rene Crevel

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

— Dead Kennedys

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is…

— August Strindberg

I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and…

— Bella Hadid

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual…

— Jamel Shabazz

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Some people in Nigeria photographed us together and are threatening to publish the pictures, but that’s not news to anyone.”

— Paulo Coelho

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we…

— Kehinde Wiley

The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he,…

— Brassai

I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are…

— Kerry James Marshall

I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists)…

— John Pfahl

It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one…

— Pablo Picasso

We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they…

— Roland Emmerich

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most…

— Ben Jonson

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a…

— Douglas Kirkland

“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and…

— Arnold Weinstein

People put barriers up in your path, and one of those barriers is age. They tell you, "You're too old. You don't…

— Bette Midler

“Consider yourself very fortunate that I don’t have my camera with me today, Mr. Windermere,” she joked. Well, half-joked. Okay, I’m not…

— Annie Arcane

For me, I think my traveling is usually a lot of photographic memories, and I take a lot of photos.

— Milo Ventimiglia

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

— David Brooks

Are you fucking kidding me? - Professional photographers on Instagram

— Nikhil Saluja

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

— Michael Douglas

When I post pictures, I get such good response; they don't want to see me just in Indian clothes.

— Hina Khan

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

— Stephen Shore

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

— Frederick Sommer

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

— Rene Burri

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

— Jay Maisel

I also like looking at a lot of pictures from the era, or if there is any footage.

— Mia Wasikowska

“A photo is a unique record of the state existing at a certain moment of time and at a certain place.”

— Eraldo Banovac

One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

— David Bailey