Photography Quotes · Page 131

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.

— Marc Riboud

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

— Sarah Charlesworth

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

— Nan Goldin

If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

— John Sexton

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

— Stephen King

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

— Jay Maisel

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

— Loretta Lux

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

— John Berger

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've got pictures but they're not on display. Things like that are nice to look back on at the end of your…

— Darren Fletcher

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must…

— Joan Miro

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and,…

— Edward Ruscha

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little…

— Leo McCarey

The thing is, if one person recognises you and takes a picture, then four other people who don't even know you want…

— Radhika Apte

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The…

— Henri Matisse

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

We clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people…

— Anonymous

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work…

— Joyce Tenneson

I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a…

— Jamel Shabazz

I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my…

— Kelly Osbourne

“we were all itching for dick jokes and male bonding. The team took photos for the web site on an abandoned construction…

— Gaimon Phil

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

— Elliott Erwitt

Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.

— Christian Marclay

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

— David Hockney

Oh my gosh You could be stalking anyone's photos though.

— Anonymous

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

— Garry Winogrand

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

— Peter Falk

“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”

— Munia Khan

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.

— Anonymous

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

— Kim Weston

“it is not unusual to sift through ashes and find an unburnt picture”

— Nikki Giovanni

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

— Drake

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

— Sienna Miller

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

— Roman Jakobson

“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”

— Walter De Mulder

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

— Nana Patekar