Photography Quotes · Page 53

I should have picked the photograph, it lasted longer than you.

— Marilyn Manson

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

— Nicole Miller

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

— Nora Fatehi

Dear camera, why do you make me look so ugly? Mirror is so nice to me.

— Anonymous

“The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.”

— Brooks Jensen

I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

— Duane Michals

“Make a good gallery! Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

— John Berger

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I've got pictures but they're not on display. Things like that are nice to look back on at the end of your…

— Darren Fletcher

Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and,…

— Edward Ruscha

For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must…

— Joan Miro

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little…

— Leo McCarey

The thing is, if one person recognises you and takes a picture, then four other people who don't even know you want…

— Radhika Apte

You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away…

— Bert Stern

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about…

— Duane Michals

“I'd like to be a light meter." "A what?" "A light meter. Like a photographer uses. Tinks had one this morning." Aidan…

— Amber Dermont

In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except,…

— John Loengard

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative…

— W. Eugene Smith

I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake,…

— Paul O. Zelinsky

Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you]…

— Joe McNally

A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to…

— Gregory Heisler

“And the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”

— Stephen Chbosky

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

— Brian May

I have fun, but I don't always want it to be on camera.

— Nick Foles

Picture the moments you want, Capture the moments you love and Develop the moments you cherish

— Chelsea Valdez

The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.

— Tom Anderson

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

— Harry Callahan

Photography ix the only career where I can legally shoot people!!!

— Tufail Mehraj

I think the first picture taken is often the best one.

— Carine Roitfeld

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.

— James Nachtwey

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

— Lynsey Addario

When the camera comes on, I am not Hayden any more, I am Lizzie!

— Hayden Panettiere

“It paints a picture, the things you refuse to say.”

— Cici Cummings

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

— Andreas Feininger