Photography Quotes · Page 95

It's only when I faced the camera that I realised how confident I was on screen!

— Mrunal Thakur

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

— Danny Lyon

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

— Demetri Martin

My Blackberry is incapable of taking a clear photo, but in this case I think it worked in my favor.

— Anonymous

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

— Trent Parke

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

— Robert Breault

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

— Brendan Dooling

I've already had our picture in a frame. but you started playing games so I watched it burn with your games.

— Tatyana Matias

When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of…

— Alex Hirsch

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does…

— Victor Burgin

I wanted to be a director of photography for a while, because I'm fascinated by what they do. You're made to look…

— Freddie Fox

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer…

— Josef Koudelka

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But…

— Darren Aronofsky

A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell…

— Aneurin Barnard

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes.…

— W. Eugene Smith

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.…

— Keith Carter

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't…

— Yung Lean

My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the…

— Taylor Steele

Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll…

— Marina Abramovic

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in…

— Aaron Siskind

“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the…

— Eudora Welty

There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in…

— Scott Schuman

Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas…

— Patrick Demarchelier

I never knew my titties was bigger than Pamela. So paparazzi be flickin' they camera.

— Nicki Minaj

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

— Willy Ronis

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

— Herb Ritts

And life ain't a rehearsal the cameras always rollin

— Drake

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

— Dorothea Lange

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

— Jock Sturges

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

— Djuna Barnes

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

— Rineke Dijkstra

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

— Vik Muniz

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

— Jay Maisel

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

— James Nachtwey

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again

— Phil Anselmo

When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that.

— Edward Burtynsky

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri