Photography Quotes · Page 90

My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

— La'Porsha Renae

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

— Ernst Haas

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

— Layne Staley

I've never really enjoyed being in front of the camera.

— Prabhu Deva

We all have a family member who think they're a professional photographer.

— Anonymous

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

— Berenice Abbott

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

— Freeman Patterson

When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

— Susan Sontag

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane…

— John Dykstra

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

— Jack Welpott

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them…

— Erika M. Anderson

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an…

— Gordon Parks

Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before…

— Jim Rohn

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than…

— A. D. Coleman

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph…

— Dwight Schultz

When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back…

— Damian Loeb

[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up…

— Geoff Dyer

This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer…

— Sid Grossman

These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all…

— Jerome Liebling

“If you’ve actually seen a ghost—and I assure you that you probably have, within the last month—it would have just looked like…

— David Wong

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also…

— Gerhard Richter

I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or…

— Sophie Blackall

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world,…

— Frank Gohlke

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

— Anonymous

A photographer's best work is, alas, generally done for himself.

— John Szarkowski

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable.

— Susan Sontag

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself.

— Thomas Demand

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

— Lauryn Hill

Memories pass by man what a great feelin' to hold glad moments like a picture when you film it

— C-DASH

I miss the time when photos were taken for memories not for social networking sites.

— Inderpal

I could never even fathom being a famous person. I don't like cameras.

— JaMarcus Russell

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

— Susan Sontag

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

— Cole Sprouse

I do not take selfies. I photo bomb my phone while it's taking pictures of itself in the mirror.

— Green Monk

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

— Jock Sturges

“A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.”

— Jean Cocteau

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

— Sally Kohn

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

— Alec Soth

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

— James Franco