Photography Quotes · Page 66

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

— John F. Carlson

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams

Most photo shoots are a beautiful dress, a natural location, and poses.

— Jenna Dewan

I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

— Ranbir Kapoor

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

— Taryn Simon

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

— Patrick Demarchelier

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

— Katherine Waterston

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have…

— Ken Rockwell

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

— Anonymous

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible…

— Sam Abell

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they…

— Pablo Picasso

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's…

— Michael Kenna

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

I'm always trying to make a connection with the person I'm photographing. I don't want to just come away with a shot…

— Mary McCartney

If you have to do more then 3 takes when taking a picture of yourself, its not the angle or the lighting.…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

“I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness in our…

— Kamand Kojouri

When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from…

— Derek Ridgers

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

“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is…

— Alex Morritt

Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by…

— Drew Barrymore

Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for…

— Kobo Abe

We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of…

— Ellen Goodman

“Everything in New York is a photograph. All the things that are supposed to be dirty or rough or unrefined are the…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

I played in bands very very young. I painted; I did photography, all kinds of things.

— Johan Renck

To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.

— Inge Morath

Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

— Frederick Sommer

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

— Diane Arbus

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

— James Nachtwey

I don't like taking pictures or selfies or any of those things, and I'm pretty introverted.

— Janelle James

“Do kisses fade like Polaroid pictures if you don't pay attention to them?”

— Ali Harris

I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

— Tommy Mottola

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

— Thomas Leuthard

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

— Fay Godwin

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when she leaves her camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

— Douglas Kirkland

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

— Alexander Rodchenko

Over time I'm slowly living out all of my high school experiences on camera.

— Justin Prentice

I enjoy the feeling of standing in front of the camera.

— Hyun Bin

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

— Joseph Morgan