Photography Quotes · Page 170

I have this personality, where I'm a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone,…

— Eli Drake

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced…

— Bill Brandt

I was laying down with friends and we are just like... show your hair.. take a picture.. so I'm like okayy..

— Jasmine Laura

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle.…

— Douglas Sirk

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

— Christina Milian

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

— Jean Renoir

“We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. (Reb…

— Edmond Jabès

There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.

— Lucy R. Lippard

Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so…

— Anne Hathaway

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are…

— Kevin Macdonald

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this…

— Ansel Adams

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.…

— Keith Carter

Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this…

— Joan Fontcuberta

I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would…

— Marina Abramovic

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and…

— Chuck Close

So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what…

— Allen Ginsberg

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“short periods of time. The researchers wanted to understand how. So they measured subjects’ vital signs, installed video cameras inside their homes…

— Charles Duhigg

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred]…

— Leonard Nimoy

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever…

— Andy Warhol

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

— Morley Baer

I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I…

— Douglas Coupland

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell…

— Tom Cruise

It's time to Photoshop my life. Touch up the edges, adjust the tones, blur out the background, focus on me, and crop…

— Yes I Am

Narcissistic people like their own pictures or they aren't narcissistic and they're just promoting their picture. Either way that's weak.

— Anonymous

It's a different world now. You look out there and you can see so many people filming with their cameras nowadays. I…

— Tony Kanal

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the…

— Kevin Systrom

Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is -…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the…

— Gustave Flaubert

When taking a selfie, make sure you washed your face, aren't so white you look like you've been covered in baby powder…

— Prince Shawn

A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently…

— John Edensor Littlewood

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it…

— Carine Roitfeld

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

— Joyce Tenneson

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist…

— David Byrne

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

— Henry Fox Talbot

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want…

— Steve Irwin

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple,…

— Anne Geddes

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence…

— Stephen Shore

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the…

— William Eggleston