Photography Quotes · Page 68

That would make a great Instagram photo - me and David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson.

— Alexandra Daddario

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

— Charles Osgood

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

— Alix Smith

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.

— Lidia Bastianich

I love the luxury of the camera. The camera does so much for you. I like the secrets a camera can tell.

— Annette Bening

I'm living inside the moment not taking pictures to save it.

— Drake

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel…

— Nina Menkes

I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals…

— Melanie Martinez

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera…

— Roger Tory Peterson

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

— Bill Jay

Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and…

— Beaumont Newhall

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

— David Bailey

Sometimes people think too hard on what to capture.. &Most of the time it's not what you capture… It's how you capture…

— Anette Sandberg

“Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a…

— Alison Bechdel

I think that people are constantly thinking about capturing things that they're not actually present for the moment they're trying to capture.…

— Ian MacKaye

Photoshop can make everything too easy, everything is possible in the hands of a good retoucher, look at any authorised photo of…

— Linder Sterling

There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want…

— Garry Winogrand

I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where…

— Alex Prager

A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and…

— Richard Kalvar

“visual clues to good composition all around you. Clues that will help you see with your photographerʼs eye if you take the…

— Anne McKinnell

On September 11 one of the messages on our answering machine was from The New Yorker saying get down here right away…

— Art Spiegelman

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

“It was a good picture. You could tell by the amount of time I spent staring at it.”

— Cary Attwell

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

— Ashish Sharma

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

— Sam Abell

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography.

— Jerome Liebling

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

— Stephen Dorff

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

— Fiona Shaw

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

— David Ayer

I hate when I'm spreading my wings half naked and victorias secret takes a picture of me.

— Luis Penetriado

They say, 'A picture is worth a thousand words,' but when I saw yours, I was speechless.

— Jas&rob

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

— Margaret Atwood

Hahahahaha, Amber and I are being weird, and * I tried to take a picture of her, so I got this

— Carlos

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

— Malick Sidibe

It's very easy with the camera to show the positive side of something.

— Sergio Leone

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

— Galen Rowell

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

— Jay Maisel