Photography Quotes · Page 239

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

— Gloria Swanson

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

— Pat Conroy

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

— Ali Shaw

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

— Shannon Celebi

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

— Janusz Kaminski

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

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

— Pedro Meyer

I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and…

— Lee Friedlander

People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we…

— Leon Golub

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special…

— Caleb Deschanel

The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not…

— Michael Kenna

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very…

— John Sexton

I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated…

— George Monbiot

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay…

— Thomas Ruff

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

— Jean Baudrillard

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

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

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

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

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

— Emile Genest

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

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

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

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

— Allan Sekula