Photography Quotes · Page 133

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

— Burt Lancaster

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.

— Nan Kempner

“Late night work and random selfies always go hand-in-hand”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

I am not a person who will create unnecessary controversies for the camera.

— Rahul Vaidya

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

I ts amazing how few pictures can bring back so many memories.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

— Alec Soth

I came to the realization that I can also satisfy my creative side by giving somebody else a chance. I don't have…

— Michael B. Jordan

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures…

— Algernon Blackwood

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history…

— Barbara Walters

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel…

— Lewis Baltz

I used to like taking pictures. I wanted to capture precious moments and make them mine. I wanted to hang on to…

— Fumio Sasaki

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things…

— Gordon Parks

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and…

— Nancy Newhall

“Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implications outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do…

— Anonymous

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual…

— Adam Fuss

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph…

— Susan Sontag

Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping…

— Paul Feig

When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures.…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

— Harry Lloyd

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

— Bruce Gilden

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

— Ambrose Bierce

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

— Andreas Feininger

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

— Wynn Bullock

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

No matter how long its been, every time I stare at the pictures we took, it still feels like yesterday.

— Mahmoud El Hallab

Facebook rule 1: If I'm not in your photo, don't tag me in your photo.

— Ronald Oliver

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

— David Hurn

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.

— Martin Parr

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

— Susan Sontag

On photo shoots I've always had to do that - take direction and whatnot.

— Daisy Lowe

“An out-of-context picture is worth a thousand lies.”

— Gloria Piper

You need a GoPro camera and some fun mounts to capture the chaos.

— Jamie Anderson

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

— Josef Koudelka