Photography Quotes · Page 54

I hate it when I look horrible in a group photo and the person who looks good refuses to delete it.

— Anonymous

“When I am doing photography that I feel free. I just like tell you a story every took to you.”

— Denny Wiranda

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

— Roger Rees

“with the help of the next picture." There was a click of a slide”

— Varda Foox

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

— Anton Corbijn

The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

— Harry Callahan

“A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

— Christian Boltanski

House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was…

— Molly Sims

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like…

— Dennis Hopper

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for…

— Taron Egerton

I've been taking a selfie every night at exactly the same time for 10 years now. I delete the pictures as soon…

— Omid Djalili

I have a low-tech camera with one lens that I've shot everything in my life on. My subjects and my subject matter…

— Marty Stuart

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot…

— Martin Parr

No, I don't think I care that much,' he says. 'I think that ship left the dock the first photoshoot I ever…

— Noah Kahan

Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by…

— James Nachtwey

The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your…

— Leonard Nimoy

My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind…

— Godfrey Gao

Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush…

— Justine Kurland

It's fair to say that black folks operate under a cloud of invisibility - this too is part of the work, is…

— Carrie Mae Weems

“The camera is an instrument of detection…we photograph what we know and what we don’t know… when I point my camera at…

— Patricia Bosworth

I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial…

— Richard Prince

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

When we were making Flickr, we called it the 'Eyes of the World.' The idea was that everybody, everywhere, is looking. It…

— Caterina Fake

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

— Nan Goldin

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

— Keith Carter

I dont think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.

— James Nachtwey

“On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers,”

— Margaret Atwood

[To a photographer who said, 'Look this way, love':] I am not your 'love.' I am Your Royal Highness!

— Anne, Princess Royal

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

— Anonymous

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

— Adam Yauch

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

— Emmet Gowin

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

— Paul Valery

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

— Peter Greenaway

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

— William Eggleston

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

— Paula Rego

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

— Bob Dylan

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

— Henry Thomas