Photography Quotes · Page 61

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

— Carolyn Murphy

I will always have your picture but my camera will never see your face again.

— Anonymous

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

— Patrick Demarchelier

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

— Alec Soth

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

— Bruce Gilden

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

— Helmut Newton

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

— Jelena Jankovic

Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

— Leon Golub

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

— Mark Carwardine

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a…

— Nelson Shanks

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part…

— Irving Penn

I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday…

— Dario Argento

“And when I say “think,” I want you to think about the subject, the location, the perspective, the lighting, the timing, the…

— Tony Northrup

All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something…

— Augusto De Luca

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to…

— Alain de Botton

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular…

— Herb Ritts

A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for…

— John Sexton

Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as…

— Wynn Bullock

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do…

— Bill Brandt

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

— Minor White

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

— Frank Deford

It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself.

— Astrid Kirchherr

I never go out to be photographed, never. I go to events because they're fun.

— Lily Allen

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

— Brendan Fletcher

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

— David Hurn

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

— Gary Oldman

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

— Bill Jay

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

— Bill Brandt

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

— Matthew Knisely

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

— Deidre Hall

“When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!”

— Mark Denman

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

— Nan Goldin

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

— Gordon Parks