Photography Quotes · Page 147

I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.

— Lily Allen

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

— Garry Winogrand

People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.

— Megan McKenna

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera,

— James Gandolfini

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

— Richard Avedon

Life is like photography, we develop fro the negatives.

— Anonymous

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

— Lorrie Moore

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever…

— Garry Winogrand

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

— Andy Grundberg

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I…

— Don McCullin

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

— Richard Serra

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

— James Agee

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I…

— William Klein

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of…

— Paul Strand

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,…

— Ansel Adams

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I…

— Bill Brandt

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they…

— Cindy Sherman

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator…

— George Lucas

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear…

— Bill Henson

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings…

— Christopher Alexander

We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not…

— Gilles Peress

My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when…

— Peter Lindbergh

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make…

— Trevor Paglen

I've been in front of the camera since the sonogram.

— Alex Wolff

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

— Garry Winogrand

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

— Ansel Adams

I'd be a really boring person to have cameras around all day.

— Holly Branson

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera”

— Lewis Hine

Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.

— Ray Metzker

“I photograph you every morning In a cruel attempt to capture A formal souvenir of what I love”

— Susan Rich

“Documenting little details of your everyday life becomes a celebration of who you are.”

— Carolyn V. Hamilton

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

— Martin Parr

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

— Drew Carey

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

— Jessica Lange

If you want to learn what someone fears losing,watch what they photograph.

— Anonymous

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

— Lena Dunham