Photography Quotes · Page 64

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

— Anders Petersen

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

— Ansel Adams

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Being in front of the camera is a lot of hard work, and I'm not cut out for it.

— Gauri Khan

Being bored is not a legitimate excuse to post 1000+ webcam photos of yourself.

— Anonymous

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

— Chuck Close

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.

— Janice Dickinson

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

— Lisette Model

I really think that's what my real talent is; behind the camera Producing or Directing, or just puttin' the visual to anything.

— Dr Dre

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

— Buzz Osborne

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for…

— Douglas McCulloh

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

— Anton Corbijn

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

— Lester Beall

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

— Terry Richardson

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a…

— Denis Donoghue

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography…

— David Hurn

To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The…

— Berenice Abbott

We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other…

— Piet Zwart

A shudder runs through the viewer of old photographs. For they make visible not the knowledge of the original but the spatial…

— Siegfried Kracauer

There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are these pin-up photos that…

— Rita Moreno

I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head,…

— Debra Granik

Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression…

— Leonard Freed

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

— David Fincher

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

— David Hurn

In media terms, the camera always lies, providing an edited version of reality.

— Mal Fletcher

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

— Bruce Jackson

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

— Garry Winogrand

A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram.

— Stephen Shore

I'm not a good photographer. I just capture the highlights of our rotten world.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.

— Nigel Barker

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

— Diane Arbus

We are gathered here today to take photos of the President pretending to mourn.

— Dead Kennedys

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

— Josef Sudek

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.

— Max Joseph