Photography Quotes · Page 178

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -…

— Ryan McGinley

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that…

— Mani Ratnam

“And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that…

— pleasefindthis

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

— M. C. Escher

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in…

— Jay Maisel

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people…

— Annie Leibovitz

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun,…

— Eve Arnold

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm…

— David Suchet

“It would be a shame if you didn't applaud the photographer when you saw a beautiful photo; but you should applaud not…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest,…

— Steve Coleman

In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked.…

— Nicole Krauss

“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to…

— Dave Hickey

For me there's several components to picture-taking and it starts with my goals as an artist. It's capturing I guess the inner…

— Carol Friedman

F8 And Be There! For years, this was the cry of the photojournalist. It meant that 90% of a great photo was…

— Dewitt Jones

My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the…

— Sam Abell

Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist…

— Sam Abell

“My memory has preserved what happened next as a series of snapshots, like freeze-frame stills from an art house movie, with those…

— Rick Yancey

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

— Damian Loeb

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard…

— Helmut Newton

My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe…

— Vik Muniz

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life…

— Peter Turnley

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject…

— Cole Weston

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I…

— Salt Bae

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I…

— Richard Avedon

“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get…

— Phil Stern

“In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“To deal with the chaos of life, I escape into the prism of glass, dancing to the visual music in my mind.…

— Polly Norman

Everyone has days where they wake up and feel like poo and don't want to see people, let alone be on camera.

— Phoebe Dynevor

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for…

— Frank Gohlke

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a…

— Larry Clark

None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your…

— Michael Langford

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer…

— Joel Sartore

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be…

— Alice Sebold

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.

— Jim Lee

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why…

— Leonard Nimoy

What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to…

— George W. Bush

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But,…

— Victor Banerjee

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage:…

— H. G. Wells