Photography Quotes · Page 129

Most people feel uncomfortable in front of a camera. They find it very hard to be themselves.

— Mary McCartney

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

— Sune Rose Wagner

My night is over only when there are no more photos to take and nothing left to sign.

— Guy Lafleur

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

— Susan Sontag

My Polo cost ends and bitch I'm dolo. Fuck friends, so all who don't know. I'm in so take a photo.

— Wale

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.

— Bill Jay

Before the night owl before the animal noises. Closed circuit cameras before you're comatose.

— Radiohead

People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.

— Anthony Bourdain

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who…

— John Dykstra

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs…

— Kate Middleton

We try never to have pictures of our children in the magazines, because there are strange people out there. But the paparazzi…

— Princess Stephanie of Monaco

We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between…

— Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value…

— Auguste Lumiere

“There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that”

— R.C. Sproul

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from…

— Imogen Cunningham

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like…

— Avril Lavigne

“You put your camera around your neck in the morning along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage…

— Milton Meltzer

I dont use the formal elements of photography for their own sake. I dont use whats happening in the world to make…

— James Nachtwey

Sometimes I just got off of an international flight and people are like running up, screaming and hollering, and want to take…

— Lil Jon

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with…

— John Hench

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re…

— Duane Michals

Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we…

— Jonathan Demme

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is…

— Emma Watson

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…

— Tom Verica

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

— Keira Knightley

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

— Steve McCurry

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes; even if the poeple in it do.

— Anonymous

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best,

— Sally Mann

I loved looking at myself when I was very photogenic, at the very beginning of my career.

— Rupert Everett

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

— Bill Brandt

“There's always a "time and place" for photography.”

— April Anderson

Most pictures may be worth a thousand words, but a picture of you needs only one! WOW.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.”

— Susan Sontag

I've always considered myself a poet in everything that I do, whether it's photography or movie-making.

— Gerard Malanga

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

You couldn't get away with anything at City because there were always photographers everywhere.

— Micah Richards

I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.

— Douglas Kirkland

There are portraits and still-lifes And the first, because 'human' Does not excel the second

— Charles Tomlinson

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

— David Burnett

I have a really early childhood memory of being in a darkroom with Mum when I was four or five.

— Mary McCartney