Photography Quotes · Page 99

“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.”

— Gregory Heisler

“wedding. If you're using a flash, set your white balance”

— Scott Kelby

Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.

— Michael Spiller

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

— Dziga Vertov

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

— Ori Gersht

Yo momma's so fat her high school graduation picture was an aerial photograph.

— Anonymous

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

“And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a…

— Pat Conroy

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

— Bob Edwards

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or…

— Jock Sturges

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the…

— Diane Kruger

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality.…

— Storm Thorgerson

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the…

— Larry Sultan

For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it…

— Michael Lesy

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

— Emile Genest

Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it…

— Nikki Sixx

At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,…

— Wynn Bullock

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The…

— David Hockney

“Spirit photos were sometimes made to remember someone who had died. During the American Civil War, when hundreds of thousands of people…

— Avi

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather…

— Andy Serkis

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In…

— Edward Weston

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live…

— Oscar Wilde

Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that…

— Lewis Baltz

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

— Tyler Shields

i'm taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day...

— Taylor Swift

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

— Allen Lacy

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

— Dino De Laurentiis

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

— Eva Herzigova

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

— James Cameron

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

— John Paul Caponigro

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

— Ari Graynor

There are people who want photographs and autographs when they meet me.

— Hima Das

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

“Photographs tell a story," Alison mutters. "But people forget to read between the lines.”

— A.G. Howard

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

— Banksy

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

— Thomas Ruff