Photography Quotes · Page 127

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

— Patti Smith

“Cautious as a camera-man engaged in shooting a family of fourteen lions”

— Stella Gibbons

Ray Johnson was a great innovator of mail art and photocopying and sending people photocopies.

— Leo Fitzpatrick

Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait

— Blaise Cendrars

One study found that people who smile in childhood photographs are less likely to get a divorce.

— Jenna McCarthy

“Capturing moments other may never get to experience.”

— Ann Edall-Robson

This photo was done by me. Guess: how old is this woman?

— Florya99

I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better.

— Michelle Wie

Life is like a camera, Focus on whats important, Capture the good times, Develop from the negatives, and if things dont work…

— Jazmine

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses…

— David Hockney

Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from.…

— Patricia Arquette

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

— Ernst Haas

Micro-looking processes that are human are what I was interested in. How can you use the camera to mime the way that…

— RaMell Ross

My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the…

— David Doubilet

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“The final picture in the album was of Aunt Lovey and Uncle Stash, their black-and-white wedding photo. I hated that their picture…

— Lori Lansens

If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the…

— Howard Pyle

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love…

— Ellen von Unwerth

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't…

— Paul Gauguin

One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo…

— Viggo Mortensen

“Look at Flickr. It began as a multiplayer online game called The Game Neverending. Its creators soon realized the photo-sharing aspect of…

— Anonymous

To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see…

— Henry R. Luce

I think it's all absolute nonsense how people talk about photography as being an art. It's a very menial career that you…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

You won't see me on TMZ shaving my hair and yelling at the camera guy.

— Israel Adesanya

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

— Dylan Thomas

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

— Abbie Hoffman

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

— Ben Schott

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

— Robert Adams

The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.

— Jane Bown

Sometimes it's a little depressing - why does the world need any more pictures?

— Jason Fulford

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.

— Frank Bruno

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

— Celine Dion

Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two.

— Sylvia Plachy

“An image that took less than a second to create will last a lifetime.”

— Christopher Paul Flateau

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

— Donald Trump

The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

— Jacob Aue Sobol

I love taking photos of the American flag fluttering in the wind.

— Jonathan Capehart

I am very rewarded and challenged in front of the camera.

— Anna Faris

I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

— Hunter Hayes