Photography Quotes · Page 195

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how…

— Nan Goldin

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is…

— Clyde Butcher

“In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.”

— Dean Koontz

Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the…

— Gerard Malanga

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to…

— Shomei Tomatsu

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself…

— Graeme Le Saux

For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

— Gisele Freund

When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only…

— Minor White

I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given…

— Michael Deaver

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Photos should focus on your waist up, unless you have amazing legs. Then it's okay to include one or two full-body shots…

— Amy Webb

My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For…

— Graciela Iturbide

It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things…

— Lauren Wasser

A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't think that photorealism is required to offer emotions. You can have very abstract characters and renderings offering the same type…

— David Cage

Generally, the imagery and the text go hand in hand. It's much easier when the text comes first, but sometimes I need…

— Lorna Simpson

At what point to people get in their car and think 'I'm going to take a photo of myself for my profile…

— Anonymous

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Will looked up at Garrison. "Did you get some shots?" Garrison held up a Canon with an impressive lens. "Got 'em, boss.”

— Eva Marie Everson

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

— Norman Parkinson

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference…

— Gilles Deleuze

I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I…

— Art Alexakis

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and…

— Orson Welles

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

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

— Babloo

Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image…

— Constantine Manos

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait…

— Galen Rowell

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break…

— Peter Menzel

...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the…

— Andy Grundberg

I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like…

— Gerard Malanga

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which…

— Diane Arbus

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

— Joe McNally

I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to…

— Chris Killip

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You…

— Chuck Close

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

— W. Eugene Smith

When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice,…

— Giada De Laurentiis