Photography Quotes · Page 123

“Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

— Ian Astbury

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

— Wynn Bullock

I'll take a pic of myself while holding it tomorrow treasure ^_^

— Treasure

Im alone in the night and I'm kinda bored hahahaha I have my friends to PICTURE CHAT too!!!!

— VIVAN

Life is like a camera lens. Focus only on what's important and you will capture it perfectly.

— Anonymous

“A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.”

— Brendan T. Kelly

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the…

— Ingmar Bergman

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it…

— Andreas Feininger

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography…

— Angela Cartwright

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room.…

— Emily Watson

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the…

— Julian Schnabel

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert,…

— Martine Franck

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally...…

— Leonard Nimoy

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs…

— Susan Sontag

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what…

— Cornell Capa

My work has gotten a bit strange. I do consulting, and people ask, "Could you give me your opinion on this, and…

— Garance Dore

Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank…

— Elliott Erwitt

Did you notice what happened when digital photography arrived? Suddenly there were four times as many people on set for a shoot!…

— Amber Valletta

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by…

— W. Eugene Smith

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ?…

— Aaron Scharf

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves…

— Richard L. Evans

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

— Giorgio Morandi

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

— Neko Case

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

— John Updike

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

— Nick Park

“I want a camera shaped like a jail, so I can capture a ghost on film.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Pictures don't breathe. But some have life in them.”

— Minhal Mehdi

Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.

— Andreas Feininger

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't have to lug around a camera.”

— Lewis Hine

I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

— Demetri Martin

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades.

— Pablo Picasso

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

— Jon Jones

My dream role is actually behind the camera. I want to direct.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

— Paul Strand

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

— Annie Leibovitz

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

— William Shirley

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,

— Julia Margaret Cameron