Photography Quotes · Page 144

If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

— Paul Morrissey

A lot of models achieve that kind of iconic position by working primarily with one photographer.

— Marc Jacobs

The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.

— Anonymous

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

— Bob Dylan

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

— Allan Sekula

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

— Winona Ryder

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

— Christian Boltanski

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least…

— Juergen Teller

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous.…

— John Divola

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects…

— Jock Sturges

Extreme sports has changed our aesthetics because they slap cameras all over the place and we really know that they are jumping…

— Kari Skogland

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such…

— Frank Horvat

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

— Jay Maisel

You know it doesn’t work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in…

— Howard S. Becker

I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as…

— Andy Warhol

I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. You always want to come back with an image that's…

— Anton Corbijn

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best…

— Devendra Banhart

Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without…

— Igor Babailov

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The…

— Wes Studi

I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device…

— Stan Brakhage

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer…

— Bill Brandt

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

“Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.”

— Anastasia Hollings

I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

— Paul Caponigro

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

— Rene Burri

;) As much as I hate pictures of me, I admit this is fun. Lol

— Naquitta Faith

My mirror and my camera have a completely different idea of what I look like.

— Anonymous

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

— Julie Andrews

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“I wasn't just looking at photographs. I was walking through the aftermath of loving her.”

— Aya Canicosa

I tend to be shy in asking people for photos - other actors that I really like and admire.

— Matt McGorry

I think that if you're a digital thinker, you can use a digital camera.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Now she want photo u already know thou u only live once thts the moto

— Lil Weezy

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“Image is a very forgiving word, even a promiscuous one”

— Paul Stuart Landau

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

— William Klein