Photography Quotes · Page 65

If you see something that moves you, and then snap it, you keep a moment.

— Linda McCartney

I love it behind the camera as much as I do in front.

— Dash Mihok

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself...

— Edward Steichen

Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.

— Philippe Kahn

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

— Jeffrey Kluger

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

— Christian Boltanski

Character is a photograph that develops in darkness.

— Anonymous

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

— Ralph Steiner

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

— Paul Strand

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

— Freeman Patterson

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.

— Danae Elon

“With my wedding photography business, I want repeat customers. So hooray for divorce! That’s why I take lots of pictures—of cheating spouses.”

— Jarod Kintz

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think…

— Annie Leibovitz

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a…

— Ezra Stoller

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple…

— Harry Callahan

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the…

— Roger Ballen

Pictures are the plane in which we can do a trip in time ,in this trip we can see our good or…

— Ritu Ghatourey

I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming…

— Diane Arbus

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he…

— Gregory Bateson

In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on…

— Ryan McGinley

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both…

— Gerhard Richter

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of…

— Paul Caponigro

I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently,…

— Keith Carter

I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain…

— Lise Sarfati

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

— Paul Simon

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

— Shaheer Sheikh

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

— Lady Gaga

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

— Oliver Goldsmith

What makes people successful in this business is to be yourself on camera. Sounds simple. It's not.

— Matt Lauer

Aw look at you, you've uploaded the same picture of yourself in 9 different effects. Arent you clever?

— Anonymous

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

— Ben Maddow

The beauty of photographs are that they never change…even if the people in them do...

— Ritu Ghatourey

Good photos have come when I least controlled the situation.

— Gueorgui Pinkhassov

I don't regret a single moment of staying away from the camera.

— Ayesha Takia

“If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

— William Baziotes

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

— John Baldessari

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

— Ansel Adams

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

— Ritu Ghatourey

“A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.”

— Tom Ang