Photography Quotes · Page 146

Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time.

— Alessandra Ambrosio

“Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person’s choice of color, furnishing, pictures.”

— Louise Penny

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph

— Man Ray

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.

— Eddie Huang

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

— Shirley Knight

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

— Steven Pinker

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

— Ansel Adams

I need to borrow a camera to take some pix of my studio, which is basically the kitchen table.

— Francesca Da Rimini

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or…

— Chadwick Boseman

I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I'm still getting selfied. It's nice, though. It's a nice…

— Sadiq Khan

“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't…

— John Green

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the…

— Robert Breault

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Somewhere right now, a girl just uploaded a picture of a place she went to in the past with a caption that…

— Anonymous

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

— Michael Douglas

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

— David Hockney

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,…

— Gordon Parks

You can also see sometimes that the best pictures are the ones where you didn't try so hard, where you were just…

— John Sexton

I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why…

— Alex Webb

“The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of mental events…

— James David Lewis-Williams

May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal…

— Jan Phillips

So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The…

— Mark Klett

I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted…

— Gertrude Kasebier

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it…

— Mario Testino

I have learnt over the years to know which camera angle makes me look better.

— Saswata Chatterjee

I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.

— Nathaniel Buzolic

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

— Minor White

I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

— Alex Wolff

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

— James Balog

If yuu see wat yuu ltk thn y don yuu tke a picture,,, it'll last longr??

— Carolyn Evans

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value...

— Ansel Adams

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

— Bill Jay

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

— Cameron Dallas

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

— Janice Dickinson

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.

— Duane Michals

Being in front of the camera is a lot of hard work, and I'm not cut out for it.

— Gauri Khan

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

Being in the public eye and seeing yourself on film and in photographs, that can be tough.

— Lauren Ash

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

— Andrea Arnold

It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.

— Arthur Rothstein