Photography Quotes · Page 266

Photons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

— Woody Allen

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

— Jay Maisel

It seems to me that while it is very important to get a striking picture of a line of smoke stacks or…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent,…

— Hedi Slimane

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Wedding Photographer In Milton Keynes the skills and knowledge to capture your memories with the best quality photographs possible that you enjoy…

— magicpicture

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

My wife made me a book of photographs she took of our road trip across the United States. Makes for a good…

— Paul Wesley

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more…

— Burt Rutan

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that…

— Sydney Pollack

The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn't that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone…

— Trish Goff

I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

— Ansel Adams

“An Australian couple near us asks Darren to take a picture of them with the Colosseum as the backdrop, and when he’s…

— Kristin Rae

(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees…

— Andreas Feininger

I never know which camera is on me when I'm dancing and the director picks the shot he likes but it usually…

— Cyd Charisse

“What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other…

— Don DeLillo

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible…

— Sam Abell

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic…

— Alfred Stieglitz

“Looking through a photograph I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you.”

— Jackson Browne

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only…

— Philippe Halsman

You have to be willing to put yourself on camera. You have to be willing to not look perfect.

— Terry Crews

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw