Photography Quotes · Page 105

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

— Andreas Feininger

I hate it when I look horrible in a group photo and the person who looks good refuses to delete it.

— Anonymous

“When I am doing photography that I feel free. I just like tell you a story every took to you.”

— Denny Wiranda

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

— Roger Rees

“with the help of the next picture." There was a click of a slide”

— Varda Foox

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

— Anton Corbijn

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

— Harry Callahan

“A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Photography is away of feeling, of touching, of loving what you have caught on film, and that is captured forever even when…

— Anonymous

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most…

— A. D. Coleman

My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.

— Gilles Deleuze

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another…

— Ansel Adams

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and…

— John Szarkowski

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

— Ray Davies

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography…

— Joel Sternfeld

I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point…

— Adam Fuss

I am always friendly with people. When media asks me for a picture or interview, I readily do it. However, I wouldn't…

— Preity Zinta

Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Scientists say that when we recall something from our past, it isn’t as simple as taking out a photograph from an album.…

— Barbara Nickless

It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would…

— Andreas Feininger

Most of our life is a series of images. They pass us by like towns on the highway. But sometimes, a moment…

— Lucas Scott

The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they…

— Sophie Okonedo

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

— Keith Carter

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

— Nan Goldin

“On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers,”

— Margaret Atwood

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

— Anne, Princess Royal

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

— James Nachtwey

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

— Tom Anderson

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

— Harry Callahan

Photography ix the only career where I can legally shoot people!!!

— Tufail Mehraj

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

— Carine Roitfeld

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

— James Nachtwey

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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

— Lynsey Addario

When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!

— Hayden Panettiere

I don't care about your opinion or my cameras; my mirror thinks I'm sexy, therefore I'm a sexy-beast!

— Anonymous