Photography Quotes · Page 88

Go ahead take a picture, hang it up on the wall so you can tear me down

— Ana

“The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”

— David duChemin

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

— Carlene Carter

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go… That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

— Sally Mann

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

— Steve McCurry

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

“Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell.”

— Alexa Kitchen (age 7

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

— Conrad Hall

To make things just that much more interesting, the changes can't be captured on camera, so anyone who doesn't see them firsthand…

— Jenna Black

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to…

— Susan Sontag

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing…

— Berenice Abbott

I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end…

— Jessica Chastain

The eye is made to see and not to think… A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee…

— Marc Riboud

“Like my maestro, Juan Ribero, she believed that photography and painting are not competing arts but basically different: the painter interpets reality,…

— Isabel Allende

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a…

— David Hockney

I was working as a print journalist before I gave broadcasting a go, and spent years behind the camera in production while…

— Vick Hope

I did 'Vice' with Christian Bale and 'Foxcatcher' with Steve Carell - both of those films had significant prosthetic work. You do…

— Greig Fraser

Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must…

— Augusto De Luca

If the quality of professional materials continues to erode or even dries up, then many of us silver photographers would have to…

— Michael Kenna

I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come…

— William Klein

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures…

— Bubba Wallace

Life is a photograph too, so thank you,for not removing yourself from the picture just yet.

— Meggie Royer

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

— Debra Winger

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

— The Weeknd

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

— Frederick Sommer

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

— William Albert Allard

Is it just me, or is Instagram just Auto-Tune for photos?

— Anonymous

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

“A picture may say a thousand words, but it can hide a thousand tears and a thousand lies.”

— Jennifer J. LaBelle

Stop editing your pictures so much. What if you go missing?

— Celeste Hartman

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

— Thomas Leuthard

Alright, I'll make a 1D cover photo after I finish my homework.

— Anonymous

A picture is never anything but its own plural description.

— Roland Barthes

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

— Diane Arbus

“There’s a reason you don’t have pictures of your work area at sweet home.”

— santosh inani

“The executive intern responded: 'Do we all really value a painting more than a photograph anymore?”

— David Foster Wallace