Photography Quotes · Page 116

It's not about the picture being taken.. it's about the story that comes with it.

— LostInTears

If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.

— Leo Rosten

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

— Roger Deakins

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

— Damian Loeb

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

— William Klein

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.

— David Alan Harvey

My favorite photograph, is the one I will take tomorrow.

— Pete Souza

My selfie game has had to increase by 100 million per cent!

— Naughty Boy

When you have something special, it's like everybody picks apart words. They'll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something…

— Christina Milian

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your…

— Theodore Robinson

Through an image, people are able to communicate how they're feeling, making even the most invisible struggles more visible to friends and…

— Marne Levine

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

— Weegee

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make…

— Robert Duvall

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

— Elizabeth Peyton

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay…

— Larry Clark

I'd really likely to shoot wildlife documentaries. I watched so many of those as a child, and I'm quite into wildlife and…

— Asa Butterfield

There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look…

— John Loengard

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an…

— Sally Mann

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a…

— Jeremy Gilley

To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of…

— Martin Munkacsi

However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I…

— Aaron Siskind

If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it,…

— Dianna Agron

There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and…

— Fred Ritchin

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras,…

— Dennis Stock

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

— Imogen Cunningham

I don't like when people put on this facade and they're perfect in every photo.

— Stassi Schroeder

“Posing is death. I think when you make people pose for a photograph, you kill them.”

— Edwidge Danticat

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

— Josef Koudelka

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Doing a photo shoot today w. digital sophia for Glam Rock Magazine

— Hanna Beth

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

— Jim Goldberg

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

— Jennifer Garner

“A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.”

— Michael Scott

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

— Tobey Maguire

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

— John Updike

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?

— Jude Deveraux

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

— Robert Richardson