Photography Quotes · Page 55

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

— Brian Selznick

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

— Mario Testino

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

— Catherine Opie

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

— Dieter Appelt

I'm on camera all the time, so being body confident is important.

— Emily Atack

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

— Andre Kertesz

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

— Kevin Systrom

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

— Gregory Crewdson

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

— Alec Soth

I came to the realization that I can also satisfy my creative side by giving somebody else a chance. I don't have…

— Michael B. Jordan

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures…

— Algernon Blackwood

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history…

— Barbara Walters

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel…

— Lewis Baltz

I used to like taking pictures. I wanted to capture precious moments and make them mine. I wanted to hang on to…

— Fumio Sasaki

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things…

— Gordon Parks

I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in…

— Taryn Simon

“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same…

— Paul Scott

The most important thing is to try and enjoy life because you never know when it will be gone. If you wake…

— Joyce Tenneson

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill…

— David Bailey

I work in the same style as classic landscape photographers. You find the right perspective, and then you wait until the light…

— Gordon Hempton

Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's…

— Dave McKean

My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV…

— John Waters

Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a…

— Joyce Tenneson

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

— Eddie Adams

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

My process of working is that I don't create a picture, I find it.

— Sante D'Orazio

I have to grab audience attention even if I don't last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

— Saswata Chatterjee

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

— Guy Le Querrec

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

— Judith Butler

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

Madison and I.. Again.. I hate pictures thats why she is always in front.

— Jasmine

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

— Anonymous

You make this boy go loco, let me whip out my camera so I can take your photo.

— WillIAm

... pay attention to everything within the field of view.

— Andreas Feininger

“Photos hold history frozen. Great photographers bring it to life.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

— Walead Beshty

“Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's being…

— Scott Bourne

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

— John Sexton