Photography Quotes · Page 162

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even…

— Steven Bochco

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were…

— Harry Callahan

My little brother thought it'd be funny to take a picture of me when I fell asleep on the couch! :O hahahahaha! :)

— Meee

“With gift giving, if it’s the thought that counts, then a picture of a Mercedes is just as good as an actual…

— Jarod Kintz

Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

— Julian Barnes

It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a…

— Andre Derain

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot -…

— Tyson Chandler

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle…

— Gilles Peress

Being in front of the camera - first of all, when I wanted to get into television, it was as a producer.…

— Matt Lauer

I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it…

— Chris Parnell

When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic…

— Ryan McGinley

I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art,…

— Helen Levitt

“Documenting life as it happened seemed like a way of not experiencing it. As if posing for photographs, or focusing on what…

— Rachel Kushner

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but…

— Olivia Arthur

There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down...…

— Henry Moore

I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

— David LaChapelle

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't turn…

— Anonymous

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

— Annie Leibovitz

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect…

— David Doubilet

I felt like an undeveloped photograph that he was printing, my image rising to the surface under his gaze.

— Janet Fitch

I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my…

— Wynn Bullock

Life is like a camera, just focus on whats important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things…

— Unkown

For a fan, a selfie takes just a moment and those who dare to ask, win. But for the celeb, the seconds…

— Susanna Reid

I hate how in magazine pictures, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute…

— Billy Corgan

I like to call the photography in film the technology of racism. Like, you have this bizarre idea of racism, and you…

— RaMell Ross

The funny thing that still cracks me up is when you get a grown man coming up to you shaking asking for…

— Samantha Ponder

I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having…

— Edward Burtynsky

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago…

— Kim Weston

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

— Auguste Rodin

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

— Duane Michals

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks…

— Mario Sorrenti

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me…

— Anthony Weiner

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the…

— John Pfahl

“Photographers, like few other kinds of artists I can imagine, have an insanely personal relationship with their gear.”

— David duChemin

“When confronted with the idea of a digital camera, leaders repeatedly asked, “Where’s the film? There’s no film?”

— Adam M. Grant

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking…

— Miranda Otto

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to…

— Judd Nelson

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something…

— Art Wolfe