Photography Quotes · Page 62

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

— Robert Adams

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

— St. Lucia

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

— Roy DeCarava

John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work.

— Mitt Romney

I have learnt over the years to know which camera angle makes me look better.

— Saswata Chatterjee

Once you learn how to free up in front of the camera, it's like nothing else.

— William Jackson Harper

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

— Bruno Barbey

“High end retouching isn’t about changing reality, it’s about presenting it at its best refined, professional, unforgettable.”

— Zarihs Zoltan

I love doing photo shoots and interviews. I never feel like I'm wasting my time or I never feel tired. It's all…

— Lexi Underwood

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have…

— Ernst Haas

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

— W. G. Sebald

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially…

— Gerhard Richter

The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it.…

— Steve McQueen

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

— Edward Weston

Old photographs are the mirrors of the past that defines who you are as time goes by no matter what youve been…

— Jazz Ramirez

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I think there can no longer be such a thing as hitting a wall on a photo shoot. If I ever hear…

— Coco Rocha

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I…

— Keanu Reeves

“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer…

— Abhijit Naskar

[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine.…

— Christian Marclay

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my…

— Richard Avedon

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art,…

— Helen Levitt

The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene…

— Janet Malcolm

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

— Sune Rose Wagner

Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.

— Leroy Sane

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

— Robert Frank

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

— Demetri Martin

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

— Diane Arbus

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

— John Baldessari

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

— Elliott Erwitt

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

— Ted Grant

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

— Richard Avedon

I fell into this thing by accident. I was never supposed to be a photographer.

— Christopher Anderson

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

— Catherine Opie

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

— Ansel Adams

Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.

— Drake

I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.

— Melanie Martinez

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

— Bill Jay