Photography Quotes · Page 201

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I think cameras should be in the courtroom, but they need to be managed properly. You need a judge to hold the…

— Marcia Clark

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing,…

— Paul Strand

I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

— Hannah Gadsby

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no…

— Lucian Freud

“I should take a photo.” “No. Just remember it, and us in it.” He swallowed. She smiled. Here was rightness of place…

— Ali Shaw

“And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a…

— Pat Conroy

“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had…

— Annie Leibovitz

The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive…

— Bill Cunningham

For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the…

— Josef Koudelka

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all…

— Margaret Bourke-White

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it…

— Paul Strand

The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard…

— Roger Ballen

I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is…

— Mario Giacomelli

Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate,…

— Peter C Bunnell

“I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.”

— Shannon Celebi

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for…

— Edward Weston

It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

— Sally Mann

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the…

— Alec Soth

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

— Gloria Swanson

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

— Tatyana Ali

The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!

— Camren Bicondova

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded…

— Lesley Manville

I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincoln'].

— Janusz Kaminski

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will…

— Marcel Duchamp

There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a…

— Jean Baudrillard

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

— Pedro Meyer

Relax and be yourself, as if you'd ever just be standing in front of a camera not talking to anyone! It's very…

— David Schwimmer

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

— Wim Wenders

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see…

— Mitch Hedberg

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

— Emily Procter

If you go into any department store these days, your picture is probably taken 30 times. In London there are 500,000 cameras…

— Raymond Kelly

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at…

— Kehinde Wiley

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph.

— Stephen Shore

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

— Annie Leibovitz

Life is like a camera... Focus on what's inportant, Capture the good times, Develop from the negatives, And if things don't work…

— Anonymous

I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in…

— George Carlin

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey