Photography Quotes · Page 77

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

— Joe McNally

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

— Susan Sontag

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

— Paul Cezanne

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

— Paul Gauguin

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

— Walter Sickert

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

— Mario Testino

I didn't think of the cameras at the time of doing this

— Myself Jeremy Renner

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”

— David Bate

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I think there's tremendous power in the images we associate with Russian culture and history, these extremes of beauty and brutality that…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Interested citizens could follow a lady from the Historical Society up the spiral of stairs to the gallery at the top, where…

— Stephen King

We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers,…

— Raoul Hausmann

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

— Dorothea Lange

“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your…

— Isabel Allende

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know…

— Clint Eastwood

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to…

— Emmet Gowin

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew…

— Dree Hemingway

One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years.…

— Richard Misrach

An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how…

— John Michael Higgins

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert…

— Annie Leibovitz

I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the…

— Robert Adams

“As he heard a brief click, Ralf thought about what had happened in that moment which had already passed. For just one…

— Alex Christofi

I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to…

— Richard Kern

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's…

— James Nachtwey

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

— William Shatner

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

— Thomas Pynchon

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

— Bill Jay

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

— Kim Weston

I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind

— W. S. Gilbert

Beautiful nature (also clouds) are therapy for my soul.

— Florya99

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

— O. Winston Link

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of the little things it has wished for, but never seen

— Anne

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

— Douglas Kirkland

I can look around a room and tell you if there are hidden cameras or not.

— Lauren Ash

By taking picture I can always see your sweet smile and big eyes

— Sazmit

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

— Brendan Fletcher

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

— Robert Henri

Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.

— Lorne Greene

“Always have a camera in your hand and a book.in your bag.”

— Lauren Rachelle