Photography Quotes · Page 117

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

— Gordon Parks

“You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Judith Butler

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

— Steve Coleman

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

— Courtney Love

A picture of you is worth more than a thousand words.

— Babloo

“The art of the cinema,’ Truffaut allegedly said, ‘is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.”

— Salman Rushdie

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

— David Hockney

You will, in time, see and show others not just the superficial, but the details, the meanings, and the implications of all…

— Jay Maisel

“When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before…

— Sameh Elsayed

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

— Paul Emsley

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like…

— Edward Ruscha

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.

— Joan Fontcuberta

“A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with…

— Jarod Kintz

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope…

— Anonymous

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it…

— Pablo Picasso

In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were…

— David Hurn

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something…

— David Hockney

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Vision is that original spark that was ignited within you and made you pick up a camera to capture whatever it is…

— David duChemin

[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is…

— Annette Messager

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I…

— Yvette Mimieux

“Which one I like better?” “That’s the question, Mr. Tour Guide.” I felt suddenly awkward, like I was being tested on something…

— Jeffery Deaver

“By shifting from the air to the ground, I sought to destroy any notion of scale as in Man Ray and Marcel…

— Sophie Ristelhueber

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

— Alice Cooper

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

— Antonio Perez

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

— Roni Horn

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

— John Burnside

If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

— Helen Mirren

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

— Roberto Rossellini

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

Never get hongry cause I keep them deep dishes. The peoples just ahhh, then they take pictures.

— Lil Romeo

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

— Drew Carey

The satisfaction comes from working next to 500 photographers and coming away with something different.

— David Burnett

When you're actually filming, there are times when you get access to places you'd never get to see.

— Elaine Cassidy

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

— Mark Denman

When the world looks upside down Just flip the camera the other way around :)

— Rachel Faith