Photography Quotes · Page 286

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember…

— Keren Ann

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do.…

— Ben Shahn

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and…

— Walker Evans

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

— Bob Dylan

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

— Grayson Perry

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I…

— Masi Oka

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops…

— Sarah Moon

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic…

— Joan Fontcuberta

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

— David Hockney

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

— David Ayer

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in…

— Chuck Close

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to…

— Vincent Laforet

I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it,

— Jean Shrimpton

I don't like when people put on this facade and they're perfect in every photo.

— Stassi Schroeder

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories…

— Dianna Agron

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never…

— Thomas Struth

Perhaps there was more authentic danger in the photography that was banned - why shouldn't one be able to produce it? But…

— Hans Bellmer

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has…

— Lucy R. Lippard

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

— Joanne Froggatt

I'm in front of cameras a lot; I'm used to it.

— Big Narstie

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,

— Andrea Arnold

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in…

— Frans Lanting