Photography Quotes · Page 132

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

— Paul Fleischman

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

— James Lapine

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

— Bill Jay

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

— Kim Shattuck

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

— Frank Deford

House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was…

— Molly Sims

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for…

— Taron Egerton

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like…

— Dennis Hopper

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter…

— Marty Stuart

I've been taking a selfie every night at exactly the same time for 10 years now. I delete the pictures as soon…

— Omid Djalili

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot…

— Martin Parr

Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by…

— James Nachtwey

No, I don't think I care that much,' he says. 'I think that ship left the dock the first photoshoot I ever…

— Noah Kahan

A photographer who wants to see…must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance…

— Freeman Patterson

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But…

— Sebastiao Salgado

“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in…

— Vilém Flusser

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of…

— Peter Lindbergh

“Husbands take photographs of their wives and children in front of a fountain and call out to the boys who rush back…

— Jennifer Klinec

If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or…

— Eric Drooker

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop…

— John Sexton

The interesting thing about my career is for years I was trying to do that thing of getting in shape and looking…

— David Harbour

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

— Anonymous

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

— E. J. Hughes

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

— Terry Richardson

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

— Alan Ladd

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

— Walker Evans

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

— Irving Penn

I love acting and the whole idea of being in front of the camera.

— Kunal Khemu

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

— Graciela Iturbide

“Between was and is you’ll find me—but most of the time you’ll only find me in pictures.”

— Jarod Kintz

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

— Abbas Kiarostami

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

— Alex Prager

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

— Joyce Tenneson

“A picture is worth a thousand words…and a video is worth a million pictures…”

— Ankala Subbarao

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

— Charles Baudelaire