Photographing Quotes

I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.

— Charles Bukowski

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

— Kim Weston

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

— Minor White

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

— Diane Arbus

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

— Elliott Erwitt

I Love photographing. It’s that simple.

— Stuart Franklin

When I’m photographing I see life.

— Garry Winogrand

My only interest in photographing is photography.

— Garry Winogrand

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

— Paul Walker

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

— Susan Sontag

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

— Garry Winogrand

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

— Diane Arbus

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

— Christopher Nolan

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.

— Bruce Gilden

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

— Sam Abell

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when…

— Eve Arnold

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it…

— Garry Winogrand

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation… photographing has become the visual…

— Geoffrey Batchen

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

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'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

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of…

— Robert Bresson

It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered…

— George Rodger

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy…

— Josef Koudelka

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again…

— Richard Avedon

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie…

— Helmut Newton

For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also…

— Trevor Paglen

[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing…

— Walter Benjamin

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

My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down…

— Larry Towell

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

— James Balog

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the…

— Larry Clark

If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish…

— William Albert Allard

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I…

— Joyce Tenneson

I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.

— Mona Kuhn

I begin by not photographing.

— Jeff Wall