Photography Quotes · Page 59

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.

— Mo Farah

“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.”

— Ansel Adams

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

— Patty Jenkins

I love photos, because they never change, even if the people in it change...

— Anonymous

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

— Shirley Knight

Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting.

— Matt Walsh

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

The best camera in the world is one's eyes and the best photos are MEMORIES.

— Anonymous

My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you…

— Lowell Bergman

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window…

— Frank Horvat

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too…

— Arthur Miller

Some photographer lady took pictures of her mom in the hospital while she was dying and they are considered art. -Scottie King

— The Descendants

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

— David LaChapelle

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.

— Steven Sebring

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size…

— Francesca Woodman

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.

— Weegee

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes…

— Julio Cortazar

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the…

— Jamie Foxx

I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of…

— Juergen Teller

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly…

— Josef Sudek

My first pictures are from 1972, and my first proper camera dates back to 1973. During the first year I used my…

— Anton Corbijn

There are numerous daytime and night time photographs and videotapes of clearly non-human spacecraft from all over the world; these films and…

— Steven M. Greer

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me…

— MC Hammer

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

— Lisa Kristine

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

— Rene Burri

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

— Richard Avedon

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That awkward moment when someone is watching you take a picture of yourself.

— Anonymous

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

— Fred Picker

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

— Dorothea Lange

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.

— Peter Diamandis

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

— Christopher Isherwood

“Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.”

— Solita

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

— Al Gore

Over time I'm slowly living out all of my high school experiences on camera.

— Justin Prentice

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

— Chuck Close

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

— Hilary Mason

Imgur is all about images, some of which may be photos but don't have to be.

— Alan Schaaf

“Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.”

— Amit Chaudhuri