Photography Quotes · Page 134

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

— Edvard Munch

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

— Ralph Steiner

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

— Helmut Newton

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

— Mary McCartney

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

— Lynda Barry

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

— Edmund White

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

— Harry Dean Stanton

“I've thought about the pictures often; what they show or, more accurately, don't show. Remembering what was happening elsewhere: in the distance,…

— Harriet Lane

I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.

— Lucas Till

Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it’s…

— Amy Arbus

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired…

— Daria Werbowy

What you see is real - but only on the particular level to which you've developed your sense of seeing. You can…

— Wynn Bullock

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

— Julian Schnabel

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

— Steven Sebring

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I…

— Cindy Sherman

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't…

— Madonna Ciccone

Photography is the only “language” understood in all parts of the world, and bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family…

— Helmut Gernsheim

The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,…

— Aisha Hinds

I don't read any magazines or newspapers any more, because I find it really scary and I get really scared when I'm…

— Keira Knightley

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I…

— John Sayles

I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't…

— Judy Fiskin

There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists…

— Chuck Close

I don't think there's a Photoshop professional out there that doesn't owe a significant chunk of their expertise - and a big…

— Scott Kelby

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

— Deidre Hall

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

— James Nachtwey

[When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.

— Lillian Bassman

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

— Annie Leibovitz

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

— Carine Roitfeld

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

— John McTiernan

Sometimes if you're too shiny they can't even edit it out of photos. You don't want that.

— Tom Sandoval

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

— Ajay Naidu

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”

— Agatha Christie

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs.

— Garry Winogrand

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

— Teju Cole

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

— Peta Wilson

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

— Aaron Siskind

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

— Robert Capa

“Knowing the right timings, good photographs. Learning from bad timings, better photographs.”

— Kowtham Kumar K

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

— Sigmar Polke