Photography Quotes · Page 55

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

— Edward Steichen

“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.”

— Shelan Rodger

I'm breaking all the rules directing a picture with animals, kids - and talking mice!

— Rob Minkoff

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

— Christophe Agou

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

— Lisa Kristine

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.

— Gary Goetzman

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

— Joanne Froggatt

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

There are times when you want your privacy, when you don't want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every…

— Audrina Patridge

“Would you still want to travel to that country if you could not take a camera with you --- a question of…

— Nayyirah Waheed

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s,…

— Sarah Parcak

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually…

— L. Neil Smith

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

“...but she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would…

— Whitney Otto

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop…

— Drew Barrymore

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film…

— Martin Scorsese

As far as digital technology has come, there's still one thing that digital cameras won't do: give you perfect color every time.…

— Scott Kelby

“I have always loved being behind the camera. I love how it sets you apart in a crowd, so that you can…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Everyone is filtering their selfies to make them look perfect. We're seeing it more and more in my clinic - patients want…

— Paul Nassif

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it…

— Bill Brandt

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity…

— Sam Abell

Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters,…

— Eugene Richards

Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

— Elliott Erwitt

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

— George Stevens

I am very proud of my husband, both behind the camera and in front of the camera.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

— Bill Jay

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

— Brett Weston

The most important thing... is not clicking the shutter... it is clicking with the subject.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

— Christopher Isherwood

“A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.”

— Jennifer Brown

“How genius to call them thumbnails, because what part of the body tells us less?”

— David Levithan

“There, behind the eye of the camera, I was truly at peace.”

— Janice Thompson

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

— Bill Jay

“put my copy on the document camera so students can see how I read and annotate as I go.”

— Cris Tovani

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

— Martin Parr

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

— Robert Henri

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

— Beaumont Newhall