Photography Quotes · Page 97

A picture can speak a thousand words. A photoshoped picture speaks a thousand lies.

— Nikhil Saluja

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.

— Jacques Bertin

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

— Sam Abell

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

— Andy Warhol

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

— David Dobrik

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

— Wim Wenders

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a…

— Jean Baudrillard

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

— Pedro Meyer

Relax and be yourself, as if you'd ever just be standing in front of a camera not talking to anyone! It's very…

— David Schwimmer

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

— Janusz Kaminski

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will…

— Marcel Duchamp

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded…

— Lesley Manville

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have…

— Albert Watson

Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the…

— James Balog

The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless…

— Joachim Schmid

I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go…

— Willow Smith

Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But…

— Hans Bellmer

Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I…

— Andreas Feininger

Two men with a camera, thoughtfully observing the visual cacophony of one major thoroughfare and the complicated interplay of its history, its…

— Vicki Goldberg

Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our…

— Ruth Bernhard

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

— Bill Brandt

Life is much more beautiful to me when looking through the camera lens.

— Nishan Panwar

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

— Vito Acconci

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

— Sune Rose Wagner

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

— Man Ray

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

— Bruce Forsyth

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

— Lynne Tillman

Treat your friends like your pictures, put them into the best light.

— Jennie Jerome

People are always stopping me and asking for photos.

— Dylan Alcott

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

— Inge Morath

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

— Sam Abell

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

— Kevin Smith

“Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you.”

— Sloane Crosley

“Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world.”

— Vladimir Nabokov