Photography Quotes · Page 65

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

— Greta Van Susteren

“Photography is the only medium messenger in this world that can stop the time”

— Anonymous

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

— Diane Arbus

I don't like when people put on this facade and they're perfect in every photo.

— Stassi Schroeder

I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

— Bill Jay

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

— Vivian Fuchs

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

— David LaChapelle

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.

— Damian Loeb

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate…

— Jamie Chung

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing -…

— D. A. Pennebaker

You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.

— Duane Michals

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find…

— Harry Callahan

I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer…

— Laurie Metcalf

You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn…

— Cecil Beaton

... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we…

— Adam Gopnik

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that…

— Ansel Adams

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by…

— Andreas Feininger

“There are different types of fancy photographers. Some are big, fun personalities like Mario Testino, who once told me, “Lift your chin,…

— Tina Fey

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a…

— Aaron Huey

The question at hand is the danger posed to truth by computer-manipulated photographic imagery. How do we approach this question in a…

— Martha Rosler

The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second…

— Jill Greenberg

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

— Darren Rowse

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

— Sam Abell

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

— Bill Brandt

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

— Diane Arbus

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

— Ben Shahn

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

— David Bailey

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

— Joyce Tenneson

Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.

— Natsuki Takaya

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

— Brian May

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

— Diane Arbus

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

— Victor Skrebneski

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.

— William J. Mitchell

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict,

— Giles Duley