Photographing Quotes · Page 2

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

— Elliott Erwitt

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

— Diane Arbus

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

— Vito Acconci

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

— Sebastiao Salgado

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

— Sam Abell

I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

— Sally Mann

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

— Judith Butler

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

When I found photography, I found this other kind of portraiture of black families and black people who were photographing themselves or…

— Amy Sherald

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to…

— David Bailey

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about…

— Mona Kuhn

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them…

— Lisa Kristine

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is…

— William Eggleston

If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject…

— Bill Jay

I'm always trying to make a connection with the person I'm photographing. I don't want to just come away with a shot…

— Mary McCartney

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve…

— Diane Arbus

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a…

— Helmut Newton

Photography is a life of learning. That's all I want from photography. I don't want the money. I don't need the fame.…

— Rondal Partridge

In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am seeing. I can be welcomed into people's homes,…

— Jim Goldberg

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re…

— Duane Michals

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I…

— Bill Brandt

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best…

— Devendra Banhart

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing…

— Brian Skerry

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try…

— Mary Ellen Mark

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

— Brett Weston

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

— Sam Abell

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

— Christopher Nolan

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

— Diane Arbus

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

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

— Bruce Gilden

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

— Garry Winogrand

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Paul Walker

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

— Yousuf Karsh