Photography Quotes · Page 280

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as…

— Janet Macunovich

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the…

— Kim Weston

Oh No, Not The Old Photo's

— Anonymous

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

— Kevin Russo

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of…

— Elliott Erwitt

“Later, Jenny would say she seldom knew what she would take a picture of when she picked up a camera, that she…

— Whitney Otto

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

— Paul Theroux

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of…

— David Levi Strauss

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

— Jay Maisel

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and…

— Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

— Allan Sekula

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant…

— Susan Sontag

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the…

— David Travis

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

— Anne, Princess Royal

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.

— John Sexton

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them…

— Erika M. Anderson

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

— Dawoud Bey

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive

— Chow Yun-Fat

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

— Annie Leibovitz

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the…

— Tina Modotti

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is…

— Robert Frank

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the…

— Michael Snow