Photography Quotes · Page 189

Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me…

— Edouard Boubat

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I…

— Drew Barrymore

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy - which is sort of not sexy at all, at least…

— Juergen Teller

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous.…

— John Divola

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,…

— Ansel Adams

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of…

— Paul Strand

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

“At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They…

— Gayle Forman

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it…

— Garry Winogrand

About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people…

— Stewart Butterfield

Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But…

— Jon Hamm

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good…

— Michelle Richmond

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is…

— Keith Carter

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently…

— Susan Sontag

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

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

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I…

— Don McCullin

Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading.

— Richard Serra

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

— James Agee

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I…

— William Klein

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Somewhere right now, a girl just uploaded a picture of a place she went to in the past with a caption that…

— Anonymous

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

— Michael Douglas

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever…

— Garry Winogrand

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

— David Hockney

...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.

— Andy Grundberg

I get selfies taken everywhere. Everywhere. I can be in A&E, and I'm still getting selfied. It's nice, though. It's a nice…

— Sadiq Khan

“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't…

— John Green

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the…

— Robert Breault

One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when…

— Jay Maisel

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

— Chase Jarvis

The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You…

— Bill Cunningham

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy…

— George Lucas

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the…

— Eve Arnold

One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch…

— Stanley Cavell

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself…

— Paul Caponigro

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

— Terry Richardson

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I…

— Larry Clark

If you don't like my work in 'The Affair,' that's fine, but I'll stand by the work because I felt that everything…

— Joshua Jackson