Photography Quotes · Page 141

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

— Trent Parke

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given.

— Eve Arnold

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

— Duane Michals

'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.

— Sajid Khan

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,

— Saul Leiter

“A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.”

— Sebastyne Young

It's not just when you shoot, or what you shot, or where you shoot, it's the combination of the three.

— Jay Maisel

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself…

— Paul Caponigro

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

— David Alan Harvey

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera is a remarkable instrument. Saturate yourself with your subject, and the camera will all but take you by the hand…

— Margaret Bourke-White

...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things...

— Sebastiao Salgado

During 'Anna Christie,' the biggest challenge I had was working with my daughter and sort of not stopping and asking an audience…

— Jeff Perry

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some…

— Reed Morano

I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and…

— Cindy Sherman

Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present…

— Peter Menzel

After I have photographed the way I like to, I feel as I might if I had been making love all day,…

— Eva Rubinstein

The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person…

— Italo Calvino

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the…

— Ken Rockwell

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up,…

— Gus Van Sant

I've always said that the Europeans subconsciously knew how to pose because of the culture or tradition of having your portrait made.…

— Tina Barney

“You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world.…

— Dave Eggers

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

— Nicholas Haslam

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

— Fay Godwin

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

— Anderson Cooper

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

— Man Ray

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

— Alberto Korda

Photographs trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real.

— Susan Sontag

Got nothin' to do and I choose to take some pictures of myself..

— Shennon Fabiano

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

— Sol LeWitt

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.

— Leroy Sane

Kung Camera Lang Ang Mata Ko Memory Full Na To Sa Stolen Shot Mo ;)

— Raemond De Jesus

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

— Christie Hefner

Don't let people bring you down let people being you up. Show them you're inner beauty, show them you.

— Alex Covarrubias

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

— Richard Avedon

Being bored is not a legitimate excuse to post 1000+ webcam photos of yourself.

— Anonymous

I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.

— Eva Herzigova