Photography Quotes · Page 172

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That…

— Ori Gersht

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

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

— Alice Dellal

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs.…

— Annie Leibovitz

When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that…

— Jamel Shabazz

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture…

— Aaron Siskind

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the…

— Annie Leibovitz

If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a…

— Ai Weiwei

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller…

— Susan Sontag

I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to…

— Andre Breton

I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own…

— Frederick Sommer

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and…

— Derek Ridgers

There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.…

— George W. S. Trow

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world.…

— Geoffrey Batchen

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...…

— Pedro Meyer

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

— Robert Henri

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first…

— Sam Raimi

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is…

— Keith Carter

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other…

— Jay Maisel

She asked what have I learned since getting richer? I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

— Drake

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera…

— Neil Gaiman

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not…

— Walker Evans

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an…

— Mary Ellen Mark

“Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition. ”

— Anthony Doerr

If 5 seconds of smile can make a photograph more beautiful then just imagine, if you keep always smiling, how beautiful your…

— Anonymous

I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.

— George Ezra

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is…

— Edouard Boubat

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day,…

— William Klein

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

— James Nachtwey

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks…

— Mona Kuhn

“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show…

— Celeste Ng

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can…

— Carol Friedman

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there…

— Martin Parr

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have…

— Ernst Haas

From running around as an assistant to having the camera following for you is a big step, especially for someone like me…

— Jackky Bhagnani

“I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.”

— Barry Eisler

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go…

— John F. Kennedy Jr

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

— Minor White