Photography Quotes · Page 60

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

— Lorrie Moore

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

— Brian Andreas

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,

— Andrea Arnold

A movie is nice when you forget where you are and feel yourself as a camera.

— Vicky

In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.

— Carl Forti

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

— Chuck Close

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

— Helmut Newton

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

— Chuck Close

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“They investigate the meaning of inert objects and dumb pets and they poke at family privacy. They learn to see things twice.”

— Don DeLillo

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

“Start looking at everything around you as a photo story, then decide how you could best tell that story - in one…

— Dan Eitreim

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand…

— Gia Coppola

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height…

— Eugene Delacroix

Time to photo shop my life!touch up around the edges,blur out the negatives,delete the unwanted and crop out certain people!!!

— Rashida Rowe

The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.

— Wright Morris

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or…

— Barbara Nickless

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still…

— Jack Welpott

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions…

— Duane Michals

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you…

— Common

All photographs are about light. The great majority of photographs record light as a way of describing objects in space. A few…

— John Paul Caponigro

The only advantage of the CD is that you have a booklet that can tell a bit of a story, but the…

— Anton Corbijn

In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs…

— Stuart Franklin

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a…

— David Hockney

Remember the cliche: ... "Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures."

— Michael Lesy

My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'

— Angela Ahrendts

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

— David Bailey

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

— Rachel Faith

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

— Steven Spielberg

My mirror and my camera have a completely different idea of what I look like.

— Anonymous

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

— E. J. Hughes

“What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!”

— Renita D'Silva

I thought behind the camera roles would suit me better because I'm sensitive.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

— William Klein

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

— Norman Parkinson

Who sees the human face correctly;the painter the photographer or the mirror?

— Lekan Wahab

I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.

— Rachel Maddow

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't have to lug around a camera.”

— Lewis Hine

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I can't move five feet without somebody wanting a photograph or an autograph.

— James Bowen