Photography Quotes · Page 76

I really enjoyed my photoshoots. Did I feel objectified? No. I felt in control.

— Ulrika Jonsson

In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation.

— Frederick Sommer

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

— Andres Serrano

Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

— Lisette Model

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

— Ben Kingsley

The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow.

— W. H. Auden

Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

— Greta Van Susteren

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

— Lev Manovich

Being behind the lens gives me a completely different perspective, and because of my blog, I get to do projects and attend…

— Hanneli Mustaparta

I’m one of those moms who’s at the bus stop with my camcorder every year, with my phone taking a million pictures…

— Melissa Gorga

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether…

— Edward Weston

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and…

— Alex Majoli

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to…

— Chris Marker

People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants…

— Dan Auerbach

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

— Paul Strand

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

— Grimes

Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a…

— Malick Sidibe

“A child’s why led to the development of the Polaroid camera. On a family vacation in the 1940s, Edwin Land’s three-year-old daughter…

— Anonymous

“Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever.…

— Pansy Schneider-Horst

My photos would not be as high quality without my dad. He's a contractor, and together we converted an area in our…

— James Charles

It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because…

— Jarryd James

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility,…

— Jeremy Gilley

I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as…

— David Douglas Duncan

After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I…

— Peter Menzel

I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.

— Cory Michael Smith

Damn I look good, Somebody take a photo, I run my his-house, you can ask Jojo.

— Red Cafe

You have to be willing to put yourself on camera. You have to be willing to not look perfect.

— Terry Crews

Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.

— Andreas Feininger

Images are really powerful in making us aware of what's possible.

— Evan Sharp

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

— Roland Barthes

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

— Ruth Bernhard

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

— Marshall McLuhan

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

— Jock Sturges

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

— Denzel Washington

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.

— Bill Jay

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

— Winslow Homer

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

— Ernst Lubitsch

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

I don't have a GoPro attached to me at all times, but I try to raise the camera when it feels right.

— John Wilson