Photography Quotes · Page 74

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

— William Klein

Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.

— Damian Loeb

I always have a little camera on me whenever I leave the house.

— John Wilson

Don't post hunting for ego boost, yeah I have a tolerance, but it ends with daily selfies.

— Aruho Marvin

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?

— Jude Deveraux

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

— Jennifer Garner

“A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.”

— Michael Scott

People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.

— Tobey Maguire

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it…

— Bill Brandt

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things…

— Garry Winogrand

Mum always had a camera with her on her shoulder, so I just thought everyone took pictures. Sometimes shed set her camera…

— Mary McCartney

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop…

— Henry Winkler

I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I…

— Jesy Nelson

“That's how hospitals get you. You go in to visit and before you know it they got a camera stuck up your…

— Janet Evanovich

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

— Sally Mann

I am actually turned off when I look at an account and don’t see any selfies, because I want to know whom…

— James Franco

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has…

— Marcel Proust

“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned…

— Christina Westover

Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when…

— Richard Avedon

I think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and…

— Robert Pattinson

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last…

— Lester Holt

Photography isn't for people to take pictures of beautiful people or things. It's for capturing raw emotions in the eyes of the…

— Jillian Rowe

“Then there were the negatives. How he missed negatives. They were the actual rays of light, bounced straight off a landscape, an…

— Ali Shaw

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

— John Updike

Doing a photo shoot today w. digital sophia for Glam Rock Magazine

— Hanna Beth

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

— Jim Goldberg

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

— Josef Koudelka

“The art of the cinema,’ Truffaut allegedly said, ‘is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.”

— Salman Rushdie

A picture of you is worth more than a thousand words.

— Babloo

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

— Steve Coleman

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

— Judith Butler

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

— Courtney Love

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

— Robert Richardson

“You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

— Gordon Parks

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue