Photography Quotes · Page 296

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use…

— Garry Winogrand

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

Photorealism was this fantastic movement in like the late '60s and '70s, because photography finally became something that everyone could produce. Photorealism…

— Damian Loeb

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism…

— Helmut Gernsheim

I have been photographed to death

— Marlene Dietrich

I'm on camera all the time, so being body confident is important.

— Emily Atack

I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe…

— Russell James

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

— Chris Jordan

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

— Alan Rickman

“Pixels don't have the depth, the resonance you're looking for. No matter how hight the resolution, how true the colours, they're still…

— Simon Beckett

“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's…

— Whitney Scharer

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when…

— Matthew Modine

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to…

— Joe McNally

What's important to me is that [photographs] have the appearance of being documents of what goes on. I like the illusion of…

— Larry Sultan

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“Across the valley, a waterfall stumbles down. In a month or two the really hard rains will come down for eighteen hours…

— Michael Ondaatje

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

— Terry Richardson

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

— Fay Godwin

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who…

— Paul Caponigro

In life, the best moments are those that your camera always failed to capture.

— Anonymous

Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same…

— Manu Ginobili

When I left art college, I was a still photographer for a year.

— Roger Deakins

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

— Disha Patani

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.

— Alexander Rodchenko