Photography Quotes · Page 80

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

— Jake Lloyd

The awkward moment when somones watching you take a picture of yourself...

— Anonymous

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

— Thomas Demand

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

— Peter Lindbergh

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

“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

Ok I know I'm an idiot but again I didn't take this picture marls did the only picture I took or planed…

— Craig

Nudge, nudge. Snap, snap. Grin, grin. Wink, wink, say no more? Could be, could be taken on holiday. Could be yes -…

— Graham Chapman

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

— George Michael

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any…

— Jock Sturges

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

— Lucian Freud

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

— Crazy Horse

Life is like posing for pictures, we pose the way we want to be seen by others but stolen shots are better.…

— HOttieDeviL

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you…

— Paul Strand

One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one…

— Alexander Rodchenko

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only…

— Garry Winogrand

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I often wonder if it makes me a less interesting person, because it really is music that I geek out about exclusively.…

— Todd Carey

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…

— W. Eugene Smith

Photography really is all about lines, and so is clothing. I worked for Oberto Gili for a couple of years after I…

— Minnie Mortimer

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And…

— Nicolas Berggruen

“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you…

— Blue GhostGhost

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

— Judith Butler

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

— Steve Coleman

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

— Gordon Parks

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

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

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

— John Burnside

If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

— Roni Horn

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

— David Hockney

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

— Alice Cooper

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

— Antonio Perez

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson