Photography Quotes · Page 108

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

— Ranbir Kapoor

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

— Taryn Simon

“A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.”

— Tom Ang

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

— John F. Carlson

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

— John Baldessari

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

— William Baziotes

S. Miling M. Akes I. /you/him/her L. Ove you E. Veryday Smile for the camera! You never know who's watching Smile because…

— Anonymous

I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos…

— Andre Kertesz

The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.

— Lucas Samaras

When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to…

— Madonna Ciccone

there is a spirit in every home, a sort of composite spirit composed of the thoughts and feelings of the members of…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach.…

— Jacob Aue Sobol

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin…

— Ezra Pound

Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I…

— Judith Viorst

Craft is important, but cameras for their own sake are not. A sense of aesthetics, a connection with the subject matter, an…

— Michael Kenna

We have experienced an utter explosion in investigative techniques. Walk the streets, look at the cameras! They are now recognising people automatically…

— Whitfield Diffie

All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every…

— James Elkins

I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand…

— Amanda de Cadenet

“At the top of his file was a three-dimensional holograph scanned in from his military graduation. Cress preferred it to the infamous…

— Marissa Meyer

I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need…

— Elliott Erwitt

I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm…

— Jackie Collins

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

I don't regret a single moment of staying away from the camera.

— Ayesha Takia

Good photos have come when I least controlled the situation.

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

— Douglas Kirkland

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

“Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?”

— Ali Harris

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

— Tommy Mottola

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

— James Nachtwey

I don't like taking pictures or selfies or any of those things, and I'm pretty introverted.

— Janelle James

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

— Fay Godwin

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

— Thomas Leuthard

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

— Inge Morath

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

— Diane Arbus

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

— Frederick Sommer