Photography Quotes · Page 72

Some artist make art with paint while others make art with light

— Nigel McKain

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

— Pablo Picasso

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

— A. D. Coleman

When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.

— Waheeda Rehman

Photoshoot fresh, looking like wealth I'm bout to call the papparazzi on myself.

— Jay Z

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

— John Szarkowski

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

— John Baldessari

I don’t want to be myself, ever. I’m terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I’ve got facial Tourette’s.…

— Kate Moss

It's unfortunate that a lot of the time in documentaries, the camera person isn't a personality. That's such a wasted opportunity.

— John Wilson

“On every door the management had placed a photograph of the person so they could find their room. As he went by…

— Fannie Flagg

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it…

— Brooks Atkinson

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way…

— Richard Misrach

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

— Andre Malraux

People enjoy photos of me by myself, and people also love to see how in love I am - it's a really…

— Madelaine Petsch

“There is more to every photograph than what we see-more to the story than the one the camera captures on the plate.…

— Hazel Gaynor

“I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an…

— Leah Stewart

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The mobility of the eye is such a fundamental treasure that we have, and that coexists with sensation. On the dance floor,…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

“I think the world..the world continues just goes on doing what it does whether I take a picture or not. My art--it's…

— Whitney Scharer

“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered…

— Mallory M. O'Connor

I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and…

— Richard Gere

“It's strange. When I put something incomprehensible into a picture, it's usually because the form and colour interest me and because it…

— Fernand Khnopff

I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression…

— Richard Kalvar

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

— Jake Lloyd

I took journalism classes and television production classes, always volunteering to appear on camera.

— Ryan Clark

The awkward moment when somones watching you take a picture of yourself...

— Anonymous

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

— Thomas Demand

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

— Peter Lindbergh

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.

— Karan Kapoor

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

— Weegee

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field.

— Rick Steves

“Related image ... I had too much fun with Photoshop...”

— Shannon Messenger

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

— Nicolas Cage

The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace.

— Robert Adams

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,

— Al Pacino

Stress is real, and you never know what a person is going through behind the camera.

— Soulja Boy

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

— Allan Dwan