Photography Quotes · Page 63

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

— Man Ray

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

— Jay Maisel

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

Memories are like PHOTO , you can ALWAYS LOOK back but you can NEVER GO back .

— Jerome Roldan

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then multi-media is an entire lexicon.

— Alfred Baijan Rasho

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

— Stephen Rea

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

— John Berger

You make this boy go loco, let me whip out my camera so I can take your photo.

— WillIAm

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

— Mike Figgis

the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that…

— The Weeknd

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free…

— Danny McBride

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in…

— Rachel Morrison

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through…

— Lisa Joy

I'm an actor by choice and I love facing the camera. There's a little bit of exhibitionism in all of us. We…

— Sharmila Tagore

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera…

— Howard Hawks

The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give…

— Susan Sontag

It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being…

— Jaime King

Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable…

— Joseph Kosuth

The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know…

— Teju Cole

My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at.…

— Anton Corbijn

I didn't want to be a photographer. I wanted to play music and be a rock star. I didn't have a mentor…

— Terry Richardson

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland.…

— Frans Lanting

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not.…

— Danny Lyon

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

— Norman Parkinson

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

— Annie Leibovitz

“Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.”

— Dara McGrath

I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.

— Eva Herzigova

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

— Earl Wilson

I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better.

— Michelle Wie

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

— William Landay

Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.

— Patrick Demarchelier

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

— Arthur Cohn

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

— Lewis Baltz

Yo momma's so fat her high school graduation picture was an aerial photograph.

— Anonymous

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

That awkward moment when your Girlfriend tags a photo of you and her Sleeping.

— Oupa

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

— Sean Durkin

In life, the best moments are those that your camera always failed to capture.

— Anonymous