Photography Quotes · Page 143

Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

— Paloma Faith

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

— Diane Arbus

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

— Ansel Adams

It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.

— Alec Soth

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

— Giles Duley

Life is like photography,you need the negatives to develop

— Anonymous

A picture has the magic to make a moment last forever.

— Anonymous

I try to consider each body of work on its own terms, discretely, so terms like 'sculpture' or 'photography', in their broad…

— Walead Beshty

I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and…

— Gregory Crewdson

André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about…

— Brassai

I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.

— Jonathan Demme

After leaving college I got a job as a photo editor. Then, looking through my mum's photo archive inspired me to take…

— Mary McCartney

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of…

— David Duchovny

“That’s different,” I said. And it was. A portrait is a picture where somebody gets to choose what you look like. How…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I…

— Drew Barrymore

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately…

— Peter Menzel

“Open your mouth,” Shane told him and Van did. He grabbed the base of his cock before tracing Van’s lips. He felt…

— Riley Hart

We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at…

— Laura McPhee

Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go…

— Sebastian Smee

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the…

— John Desmond Bernal

I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes…

— Ransom Riggs

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

— Christopher Isherwood

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

— Bruce Gilden

NatGeo always has great photographs and photographers. There's always something interesting to look at.

— B-Real

“You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.”

— Tapan Ghosh

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

— Susan Sontag

“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages.”

— M.R. Mathias

In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.

— Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

— Robert Doisneau

Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.

— Jamie Hince

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

— Jay Maisel

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

— Amanda de Cadenet

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

— Gaston Bachelard

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,

— Aidan Gillen

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.

— Raghubir Singh