Photography Quotes · Page 56

I don't need a photograph because you've never left my mind

— Anonymous

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

— Adolf Hitler

A good photographer must love life more than he loves photography.

— Anonymous

It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos.

— Rinko Kawauchi

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

— Elliott Erwitt

I can't tell if you have a better life than me, or better photo filters.

— Anonymous

“We are poor passing facts. warned by that to give each figure in the photograph his living name.”

— Robert Lowell

It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

— Jim Gaffigan

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout…

— Jamel Shabazz

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about…

— John Gutmann

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a…

— Steven Sebring

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up…

— Martin O'Malley

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination…

— Ansel Adams

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a…

— Edgar Degas

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my…

— Patti Smith

I remember when the photograph was taken. The famous one, I mean. The one of me being rushed from the Boston Marathon…

— Jeff Bauman

“I skim through the issue [of Elle] and reach the offending photo, a montage that ridicules rather than glorifies our idol. It…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do…

— Elliott Erwitt

Husband: You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why? Wife: When there is a problem, no matter how…

— Nate

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her -…

— Rachel Morrison

“prints, but we do have something else.”             We followed her down the corridor to where the package was been subjected to…

— Simon Gould

Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at…

— Joan Fontcuberta

I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head,…

— Debra Granik

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where…

— Alan Huffman

You look tight on camera, it sees it. The camera can see everything.

— Luke Kuechly

“The photographer's art: To freeze the fleeting masterpieces nature creates at sunrise and sunset.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

— Jonathan Evison

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Treat your friends as you do your pictures and put them in the best light.

— Anonymous

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

— Garry Winogrand

Time is an ever-fleeting presence, to capture even a slice of it yields a wealth to having lived.

— David Mitchell

If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

— Shomei Tomatsu

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

— Oscar Wilde

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner

I like pictures because they never change,they even bring back the memories of people who have changed.

— Abhishek Tiwari

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

— Philippe Halsman

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

— Eliot Porter

“No photograph can truly recall the beloved’s smile.”

— C. S. Lewis