Photography Quotes · Page 53

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively,…

— Elliott Erwitt

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

— Petra Collins

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any…

— Jock Sturges

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

— Trent Parke

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions…

— Richard Avedon

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to…

— Kate Morton

If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work…

— Aaron Scharf

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the…

— Sebastiao Salgado

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a…

— Edward Weston

Photography is not something you retire from.

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it…

— Nikki Sixx

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through…

— John Dyer

Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of…

— Robert Heinecken

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

“Without a camera my life has a void in it.”

— Christopher Paul Flateau

“Consider yourself very fortunate that I don’t have my camera with me today, Mr. Windermere,” she joked. Well, half-joked. Okay, I’m not…

— Annie Arcane

So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh,…

— Lita Ford

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures…

— Rankin

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

— Martine Franck

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they…

— Mario Testino

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

— Yousuf Karsh

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.…

— Rondal Partridge

The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.…

— Joel Meyerowitz