Photography Quotes · Page 222

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and…

— Lupe Fiasco

“A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you…

— Marisa Silver

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.

— Bill Jay

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

— David Hockney

Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we…

— Barbara Kruger

One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.

— James Murphy

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking…

— Orlando Bloom

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

— Allan Sekula

“At the top of his file was a three-dimensional holograph scanned in from his military graduation. Cress preferred it to the infamous…

— Marissa Meyer

Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need…

— Elliott Erwitt

I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm…

— Jackie Collins

After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos…

— Martin Brodeur

“Most of Arbus's work lies within the Warhol aesthetic, that is, defines itself in relation to the twin poles of boringness and…

— Susan Sontag

“At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From…

— Mary Simses

We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the…

— Dave Haywood

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term,…

— Alfred Stieglitz

There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things…

— Anonymous

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

— Emile Genest

For years and years and years... people showed me pictures that had been left unclaimed at big photo-finishers. Sometimes I think it…

— Michael Lesy

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the…

— Larry Sultan

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality.…

— Storm Thorgerson

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the…

— Diane Kruger

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or…

— Jock Sturges

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

— Bob Edwards

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

“Sides, i don't like the posed pics.They're not the real person.They're a reflection of what the person wants the world to think…

— Rachel Hawthorne

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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 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

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

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

— Kehinde Wiley

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

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

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