Photography Quotes · Page 48

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a…

— Sebastiao Salgado

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine.…

— Christian Marclay

As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty…

— Mirabel Osler

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

— Carrie Mae Weems

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

— Minor White

The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has…

— Garry Winogrand

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you…

— Lucas Samaras

My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to…

— Woody Guthrie

My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter,…

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

— Anonymous

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's…

— Annie Leibovitz

I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame. I like people stopping me in the street and…

— Frank Skinner

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming…

— Diane Arbus

Does getting closer to the subject make the photograph more intimate? I'm sure it takes more than that. What comes next? The…

— Tina Barney

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I…

— Duane Michals

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

— Kevin Systrom

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate…

— Josef Koudelka

I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead…

— Laurie Metcalf

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph must be more interesting than the thing photographed

— Gary Winogrand

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

— John Stuart Mill

“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

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

— Lauren Greenfield