Photography Quotes · Page 89

This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

— Emmet Gowin

David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.

— Vitali Klitschko

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

— Errol Morris

If youre going to be sexy in a photo, youd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

— Peta Wilson

“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.”

— Haven Kimmel

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When we are given gifts, we must be quick and able to accept them.

— Jay Maisel

When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private.

— Anonymous

Germany led the world in photography and film: 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' and 'Metropolis' are works that, to this day, film…

— Justin Cartwright

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different…

— Paula Patton

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of…

— Pablo Picasso

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and…

— Dennis Hopper

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to…

— Brady Corbet

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work…

— John Sexton

We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic,…

— Jeff Vespa

The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value,…

— Paul Valery

I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give…

— Hilton Als

I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to…

— Rachel Khoo

It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and…

— Amy Webb

People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope…

— Harold Evans

Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a…

— Princess Diana

I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos…

— Gordon Bell

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

— Clarence John Laughlin

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

— Rosalind E. Krauss

I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.

— Roisin Murphy

I hope the photo session doesn't last longer than the marriage.

— Anonymous

Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

— LaToya London

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

“A picture paints a thousand words, a thousand poorly chosen words.”

— S.E. Toon

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

— Colleen Atwood

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

— George Bernard Shaw

I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.

— Anushka Sharma

I love a well composed shot. It doesn't necessarily have to be beautiful, but it must be well composed.

— James Ivory

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

— Edward Weston

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

— Herb Lubalin

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

— Steve Coleman

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

— Ansel Adams