Photography Quotes · Page 56

I vowed to never be on camera down-talking another black man.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

— Ansel Adams

I believe that the camera is Christian. I think it's born in western ideology. I think it fundamentally 'others.'

— RaMell Ross

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we…

— Sam Abell

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

— August Strindberg

“A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids.”

— Anne Tyler

Part of it has to do with the discipline of being actively receptive. At the core of this receptivity is a process…

— Henry Wessel, Jr

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an…

— Susan Sontag

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay…

— Thomas Ruff

I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my…

— Aaron Siskind

When the world looks upside down Just flip the camera the other way around :)

— Rachel Faith

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of…

— Saul Leiter

I like being out on the cricket field and performing and playing in front of a crowd. I find it quite tricky…

— Andrew Flintoff

Old but edited.XD I was bored so.i started editing old ugly photos. (Theres not a way to make this look better.)

— Jasmine

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a…

— Norman Reedus

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life…

— Graham Nash

I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to.…

— Leonard Nimoy

A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something…

— Jeff Koons

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

— Edward Weston

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation…

— El Lissitzky

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a…

— Frank Gohlke

“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

— Alfred Stieglitz

Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but…

— Henry Holmes Smith