Photography Quotes · Page 83

When you're actually filming, there are times when you get access to places you'd never get to see.

— Elaine Cassidy

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

— Roberto Rossellini

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

— David Hockney

I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

— Helen Mirren

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

— Don McCullin

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

— Anonymous

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

— Frederick Sommer

Keep your mind open. You may very well learn something new about yourself and your pictures.

— Jay Maisel

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

— David Douglas Duncan

Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera…

— Andreas Feininger

I lived in 'Geordie Shore' where we had cameras stuck to every wall of the house, filming 24 hours a day. We…

— Charlotte Crosby

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

— Chuck Close

“Writing and photographing is not about copying reality and reproducing it perfectly. It's about showing it to others as you see it…

— Katja Michael

Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is…

— Roy Stryker

“Every time she heard the click of the shutter, followed by that faint rustle, she remembered when she used to catch grasshoppers…

— Paolo Giordano

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography]…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious…

— William Eggleston

The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it…

— Thomas Roma

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has…

— Gisele Freund

I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp…

— Arnulf Rainer

You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck…

— Ben Katchor

“A picture is worth a thousand words. A story is worth a thousand images”

— M.M. Kin

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

— Lee Friedlander

I'm not used to being in front of a camera as myself. I'm not used to watching myself as myself.

— Ellen Page

I was sooo bored so I decided to take a pic of me and mah fatty wisky

— Anonymous

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

— Andy Warhol

When the world looks upside down Just flip the camera the other way around :)

— Rachel Faith

“The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.”

— Mark Denman

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

— Nicole Holofcener

Photographers have already photographed everything too many times, except cheese.

— Bill Jay

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

— Paul Gauguin

“than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would”

— Oscar Wilde

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words - A Book Paints a Thousand Pictures.”

— Philos Sopher

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

— Rene Magritte

Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

— John Paul Caponigro