Photography Quotes · Page 6

“...a memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.”

— Jennifer Finney Boylan

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I…

— Elliott Erwitt

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 in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude…

— Brassai

When I was starting out, conceptual photography had become something that had to be amateur - like, that had to be black-and-white,…

— Elad Lassry

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

— Dorothea Lange

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

— Bill Jay

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew…

— Keith Carter

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he…

— Gregory Bateson

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what…

— Alec Soth

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

— Steve Rushin

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

— David Hockney

Never put lettering in your photos unless you want it read.

— Jay Maisel

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

— Frederick Sommer

“Things that are done secretly are done in camera.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that…

— Ralph Gibson

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my…

— Wynn Bullock

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I…

— Tatiana Maslany

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More…

— Chuck Close