Photography Quotes · Page 148

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

— Janine Turner

A TV camera goes right through your soul. If you're a bad person, people pick that up.

— Roy Clark

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

— Garry Winogrand

Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher.

— Robert Polidori

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

— Matt Damon

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.

— Fala Chen

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

— Diane Arbus

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what…

— Heidi Klum

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as…

— Rachel Morrison

Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It's terrifying and worrying, to…

— Soha Ali Khan

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through…

— Orhan Pamuk

I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings…

— Brooklyn Beckham

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it…

— Italo Calvino

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to…

— Miles Aldridge

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but…

— Gore Vidal

I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures…

— Libba Bray

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous…

— Keira Knightley

Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the…

— Nancy Gibbs

I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've…

— Joyce Tenneson

As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most…

— Wynn Bullock

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I…

— Anton Corbijn

Nothing wrong with retouching - nothing new about retouching.

— David Bailey

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

— Peter Tork

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

— Howard Hawks

“The whole place was a lost black-and-white photograph.”

— D.M. Pulley

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.

— Ida Lupino

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

— Bob Dole

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“The difference between an amateur and professional photographer is the size of the waste basket”

— Chris Marquardt

“Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.”

— Dara McGrath

I wish there was a software to photoshop life and became easier than it is now...

— Simphiwe

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

— Peter Lik

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

— Don McCullin

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

— Andy Warhol

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake