Photography Quotes · Page 213

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

— Joyce Tenneson

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

— Henry Fox Talbot

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist…

— David Byrne

I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple,…

— Anne Geddes

Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence…

— Stephen Shore

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want…

— Steve Irwin

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the…

— William Eggleston

I have this personality, where I'm a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone,…

— Eli Drake

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the…

— Nicki Minaj

A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him…

— Derek Walcott

“I think it was probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. "I can't believe I don't have my camera," Jane said…

— Emily M. Danforth

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them...…

— Diane Arbus

Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty…

— Edwin Land

He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by…

— Vilem Flusser

...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder,…

— Barbara Ess

When I've had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I'll go out walking for…

— Teju Cole

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I was laying down with friends and we are just like... show your hair.. take a picture.. so I'm like okayy..

— Jasmine Laura

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced…

— Bill Brandt

Since high school, I've always been super into photography. I event went to Valley College for photography.

— Christina Milian

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle.…

— Douglas Sirk

I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.

— Jean Renoir

There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.

— Lucy R. Lippard

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. (Reb…

— Edmond Jabès

“short periods of time. The researchers wanted to understand how. So they measured subjects’ vital signs, installed video cameras inside their homes…

— Charles Duhigg

There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred]…

— Leonard Nimoy

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

— Kate Morton

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever…

— Andy Warhol

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

— Morley Baer

I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I…

— Douglas Coupland

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell…

— Tom Cruise

It's time to Photoshop my life. Touch up the edges, adjust the tones, blur out the background, focus on me, and crop…

— Yes I Am

Narcissistic people like their own pictures or they aren't narcissistic and they're just promoting their picture. Either way that's weak.

— Anonymous

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

— Teju Cole

At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph,…

— Rankin

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the…

— Jay Cassidy

I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of…

— Alex Prager

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera…

— Lotte Jacobi

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and…

— Loretta Lux