Photography Quotes · Page 96

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

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

— Kim Weston

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

— James Runcie

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

— Alfred Stieglitz

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

— Taylor Momsen

“Sadly, I can’t say that I’ve grown out of my urges to do things because I think that technically, if I were…

— Jen Kirkman

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see…

— Laurel Nakadate

“The photographer had caught her midlaugh, and the defiance of her bared teeth and wide lips gave her face a hint of…

— Libba Bray

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda;…

— Walker Evans

Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or…

— Erik Larson

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there,…

— Maurizio Cattelan

For the longest time, I was very conscious of the camera while doing a scene. It wouldn't seem natural. But gradually, I've…

— Neha Dhupia

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great…

— Mathew Brady

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was…

— Joel Meyerowitz

One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one…

— Julio Cortazar

To be sure the landscape can't run away, and yet I always fear that it may. [Sometimes] I must set up my…

— Mario Giacomelli

... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years…

— Carl Mydans

Successful blog is a unique voice; and depending on the blog, your own style factors in. To some extent, it might have…

— Susanna Lau

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We…

— Jeff Koons

I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words,…

— Michael Mann

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,…

— Berenice Abbott

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

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

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

— Lewis Baltz

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

— A. D. Coleman

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

— John Szarkowski

Photoshoot fresh, looking like wealth I'm bout to call the papparazzi on myself.

— Jay Z

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

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

— Jake Lloyd

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

— John Baldessari