Photography Quotes · Page 75

You get used to cameras being with you 24/7, but you have to be prepared for people to have an opinion.

— Artem Chigvintsev

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

— Mario Testino

Great portrait photographers are great mythologists.

— Roland Barthes

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

— Edward Enninful

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

— Don McCullin

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

— Jock Sturges

Tha Truth back, lets get to bidness. It's something unfamiliar. Call it a foreign image.

— Trae Tha Truth

“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”

— Ansel Adams

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind…

— Alison Jackson

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would…

— Margaret Bourke-White

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what…

— Alec Soth

When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from…

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to…

— David Bailey

People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a…

— Nikki S. Lee

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More…

— Chuck Close

The word “photography” can be interpreted as “writing with light” or “drawing with light.” Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing…

— Philippe Halsman

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

What's hilarious is people taking photos and they think you don't know. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen. Like taking a…

— Will Poulter

A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for…

— Susan Sontag

The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster…

— Wynn Bullock

Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's…

— Newt Gingrich

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

— Jan Phillips

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

— Moon Unit Zappa

Because of who I am, people ask for photos. I can't just say no to everyone.

— Mo Farah

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

— Heather Locklear

Selfie is referred to the new age 'autograph' for our fans nowadays! Also, I like clicking selfies.

— Nikita Dutta

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

— Bill Jay

“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind”

— Isaac Marion

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

— Donald Sutherland

“Bad decisions create a good lessons, photos however create a good stories.”

— Solita

“If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“Photographs and essays and novels and the rest can change your life; they are dangerous.”

— Rebecca Solnit

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

— James Wilson

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself.

— Andre Kertesz

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

— Fred Picker

“A photograph is usually the photographer’s subconscious attempted to possess the photographed moment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

— Carly Schroeder