Photography Quotes · Page 120

Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.

— Stacy Martin

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

“My condition is the same without camera, like fish without water.”

— Lovinder Rattan

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

— Elliott Erwitt

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

— Anonymous

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

— Dorothea Lange

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

— Isabel Allende

You didn't catch me, Mr. Valiant. You were set up to take those pictures.

— Jessica Rabbit

There are times that I have to say no to a photograph, like at 8:30 A.M. when I'm out to buy bread…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a…

— Roy Stryker

I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

— Erin Heatherton

At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing.

— Nithya Menen

“a picture wasn’t worth anything if it didn’t produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.”

— Brigid Kemmerer

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will…

— Ruth Wilson

“Make sure you take lots of pictures, and if you come back using words like 'queue' or 'lorry', I'll be very upset.”

— Rachel Hawkins

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at…

— Peter Jackson

I don't want to knock photography, and I don't feel that film is up there but photography isn't. I think they're next…

— Anton Corbijn

Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to…

— Wim Wenders

I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me…

— Anton Corbijn

I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things…

— Jordan Bridges

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise…

— Marshall McLuhan

“A wall-to-wall Instagram reel of flirtatious young women doing selfies and documenting the gaps in their thighs isn’t a zoetrope of inconsequential…

— Leigh Alexander

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going…

— Edward Weston

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

— W. Eugene Smith

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

— Denise Bidot

There's always a temptation to get in front of the camera. It's part of my personality.

— Terrell Suggs

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

— Beaumont Newhall

The body is a place where our mind resides, and that's what I'm photographing.

— Mona Kuhn

I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture.

— Alex Majoli

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

— Brendan Coyle

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

— Sebastian Smee

I do enjoy being in front of the camera and that is something new I have discovered.

— Manushi Chhillar

My dad was a photographer, so we had all these studio portraits of us.

— Timothy Simons

A picture with thousands of words, the movie much be billions of words.

— Rehn Williams

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

— Nigel Barker

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

— Ray Davies