Photography Quotes · Page 4

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity.…

— Dawoud Bey

You can always tell a great photographer because they make you feel super-relaxed.

— Lynne Ramsay

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Cameras give one person a thousand eyes. They take us light years away. Pictures introduce us to a million strangers. They let…

— Katie Kacvinsky

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

— Vivian Fuchs

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement…

— Gabriel Orozco

“Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way.…

— Miriam Toews

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

— Daido Moriyama

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from…

— David Cage

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

— Eliot Porter

“Seeing through the lens started to become a part of my day-to-day life and I focused on the everyday...I looked for beauty…

— Lance Reynald

That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ...…

— Mary Ellen Mark

The only thing that could stop me from taking selfies is a photo of what I look like taking selfies.

— Anonymous

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot.…

— Eve Arnold

I'm a documentary photographer. That's what I've always wanted to be; that's where my heart and soul is.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet…

— Julian Lennon

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

— Anders Petersen

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to…

— Andy Grundberg

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another…

— Ansel Adams

My job is very simply that of a photojournalist. I want to stop people's eye on the page, I want to move…

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity…

— Trevor Paglen

Photographing a cake can be art.

— Irving Penn

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

— Robert Rauschenberg