Photographing Quotes · Page 2

Photographing a cake can be art.

— Irving Penn

You adapt to who you're photographing.

— David Bailey

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

— David LaChapelle

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.

— Tom Selleck

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

— Yousuf Karsh

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

— Mona Kuhn

I love photographing people in New York; it has such a great cross-section of people from all over the world.

— Mary McCartney

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

— James Nachtwey

It's hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I'm sure a lot of people made mistakes - they just…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I've always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely…

— Diane Arbus

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun,…

— Eve Arnold

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

— Douglas Kirkland

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better…

— Daniel Berehulak

Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I…

— Andrea Modica

My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the…

— David Linley

When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid…

— Simon Norfolk

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think…

— Larry Clark

We all look in the mirror and see us a little blonder or a little thinner or a little younger, whatever that…

— Carol Friedman

Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on…

— William Henry Jackson

Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it…

— Garry Winogrand

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at…

— David Maisel

I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into…

— Bruce Barnbaum

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

— Shania Twain

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

— Vito Acconci

I think, if my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me.

— Christy Turlington

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.

— Josef Koudelka

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.”

— Zdzisław Beksiński

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

— Jessica Lange

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

— Lynsey Addario

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.

— David Bailey

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

— Dorothea Lange

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

— Danny Clinch

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

— Mario Testino

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

— Kim Weston