Photography Quotes · Page 130

“The art of photography is all about capturing emotions not events.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.

— Tom Selleck

Sometimes I've been on sets where no one knows why the camera is in the place that it is.

— Fred Hechinger

Photos bring back memories and memories bring back feelings.

— Anonymous

DAMN what else can I do???? Im so bored I already took like 20 pics already lol :)

— Kimmy

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

— Sebastiao Salgado

“Every photo tells a story but remember this, there was a story teller behind the lens.”

— Belinda Taylor

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

— Dan Gilroy

Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're…

— Christine Feehan

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

— Emily Weiss

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn…

— Shomei Tomatsu

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do…

— John Szarkowski

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then…

— James Nachtwey

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the…

— Charles Sheeler

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his…

— Edwin Land

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead…

— Robert Benton

Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every…

— Ben Kingsley

...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at…

— Bruce Barnbaum

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days…

— Aubrey Beardsley

When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to…

— Olivia Arthur

By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or…

— Frank Horvat

All photographs are authored, but they just claim non-authorship.

— RaMell Ross

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“You can’t use a blackmail photo as your profile shot on social media!”

— Kristi Abbott

Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing.

— Dan Schneider

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

— Edward Weston

The camera is a mirror with a memory, but it cannot think.

— Arnold Newman

When I was working, there was no digital. We actually worked; we used Polaroids.

— Alek Wek

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

— Ben Shahn

I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth.

— Simon Haynes

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

— Fay Godwin

“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.”

— Christina Westover

People nowadays take pictures, not for memories, but to post them on facebook and get comments.

— Anonymous

“PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.”

— Aman Verma

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

— Rene Burri

I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography.

— Jean-Marc Bustamante