Photography Quotes · Page 79

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

— Alan Rickman

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am…

— Philippe Halsman

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

— Joshua Leonard

“to photograph promise, and the moment before full beauty. Then you have expectation; drama.”

— James Runcie

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

— Kim Weston

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

— Alfred Stieglitz

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It…

— Claire Denis

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Where Ever I go,I always brought my simple Camera,I always captures everything,it is the moment we can't bring back the time but…

— Mariane Corbito

Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

— Jonathan Adler

I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's…

— Richard Elman

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

— Garry Winogrand

“What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role…

— Miya Yamanouchi

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work…

— Tod Papageorge

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most…

— Sam Abell

The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings…

— Jurgen Teller

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then…

— Paul Caponigro

“Scanning my memory for children I know, I throw it down. It turns in midair, landing facedown on the counter, and it’s…

— Anonymous

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as…

— Richard Avedon

“Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously?…

— Shannon Noelle Long

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the…

— Susan Sontag

I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read…

— Hans Frank

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

— Taylor Momsen

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

— Eddie Adams

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

— Annie Leibovitz

“staring at the picture of President Clinton and Monica Lewinski”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

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

— Lauren Greenfield

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

— Lewis Baltz

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

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

— A. D. Coleman

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

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

— Waheeda Rehman

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

— Ryan Clark

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

— John Baldessari