Photography Quotes · Page 145

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

— Anton Corbijn

People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about.

— Nick Woodman

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

— Christopher Nolan

I am a working mom and cameras are on me, so people catch me traveling or working.

— Kate Gosselin

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

— Lewis Baltz

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

— Alain Ducasse

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

— Marshall McLuhan

I wanted to be an entertainer; I wanted to be on the big screen. I loved the cameras and the lights.

— Trina

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me…

— Edouard Boubat

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of…

— Harry Callahan

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

— Gilles Peress

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just…

— Philip Gourevitch

I can't just wear whatever when I go out because somebody might want to take a picture. People are, like, taking pictures…

— Bryson Tiller

Photography is space, light, texture, of course, but the really important element is time - that nanosecond when the image organizes itself…

— Ezra Stoller

“Start looking at everything around you as a photo story, then decide how you could best tell that story - in one…

— Dan Eitreim

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

— Diablo Cody

To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad…

— Tina Modotti

Part of it has to do with the discipline of being actively receptive. At the core of this receptivity is a process…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.'…

— Delroy Lindo

... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the…

— Lev Manovich

Multi-camera's fun because you have the immediacy of the audience and just being able to tell the story more or less straight…

— Megan Mullally

I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their…

— Moby

[On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is…

— Rebecca Solnit

“On another point: King Leopold’s Ghost reproduces some of the photographs of Congo atrocities that fueled the worldwide protests against Leopold’s rule…

— Adam Hochschild

“As a photo-journalist your presence anywhere is as welcome as turd falling into a Ming vase.”

— Steve Merrick

Had I not become a singer, I may have been a photographer.

— Lisa

Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

— Barry Cryer

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

— Theodore Robinson

It's not that I don't care about content, but content is not the only way a photograph has meaning.

— James Welling

Saving a photo as 'gdhagfdgvsl' because you're too lazy to write a proper title.

— Anonymous

“Look behind the camera. At that moment in time I was there.”

— George Power

“don’t spend money on high-end equipment before you gain the experience and learn to plan a shot.”

— Tony Northrup

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

— Jerry Saltz

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

— Alexey Brodovitch

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

When you look at my pictures, you are seeing my life.

— Douglas Kirkland

I studied photography in high school, and straight away, I knew it was something I was interested in.

— Brooklyn Beckham

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

— Garry Winogrand