Photography Quotes · Page 139

“A picture may say a thousand words, but it can hide a thousand tears and a thousand lies.”

— Jennifer J. LaBelle

Go ahead take a picture, hang it up on the wall so you can tear me down

— Ana

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.

— Sebastiao Salgado

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go… That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

— Sally Mann

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

— Steve McCurry

I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

— Carlene Carter

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask…

— Lee Friedlander

I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in…

— Eric Ripert

I don't usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the…

— Robert Doisneau

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

— Terry Richardson

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I…

— Larry Clark

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything…

— Joshua Jackson

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science…

— Yousuf Karsh

I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let…

— Amanda de Cadenet

“Without that discovery of the "moving photo," the world today would not be what it is: the new technology has become, primo,…

— Milan Kundera

Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its…

— Andreas Feininger

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you…

— Carol Tavris

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the…

— Ansel Adams

It's a little bit over the top. I feel the same in my head I guess. I was quite a paranoid person…

— Robert Pattinson

“Are we not, all of us, in some way, damaged mirrors? Are we not constantly engaged in focusing the light of thought—memories…

— Yael Shahar

I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors,…

— Alex Prager

I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason,…

— Stella Vine

“The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”

— David duChemin

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

— Rene Burri

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

— David Bailey

One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“A photo is a unique record of the state existing at a certain moment of time and at a certain place.”

— Eraldo Banovac

I also like looking at a lot of pictures from the era, or if there is any footage.

— Mia Wasikowska

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

— Jay Maisel

When I post pictures, I get such good response; they don't want to see me just in Indian clothes.

— Hina Khan

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

— Frederick Sommer

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

— Stephen Shore

I don't know any girls who appreciate getting a close-up snap of a guy's privates out of nowhere.

— Holly Carpenter

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

— Walter Benjamin