Photography Quotes · Page 100

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

— Anne Geddes

Being in front of the camera was very liberating for me.

— Mohit Raina

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

— Tyra Banks

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

— Ric Ocasek

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

— Neil LaBute

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

— John Szarkowski

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

— Susan Sontag

I like taking pictures of other people more than I like to take pictures of myself.

— Liza Soberano

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have…

— James Pearse Connelly

“A picture is a reflection of the dreams, vision, missions and goals hidden within. Look beyond what you see.”

— Proud Chocolate

Doing film and television demands a kind of simplicity. If you think something differently, the camera will pick it up.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve…

— Diane Arbus

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens,…

— Sarah Dessen

There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a…

— Susan Orlean

I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

— Joan Fontcuberta

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the…

— Jerry Uelsmann

“Just consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himself—this is the moment to take a snapshot; when you wait until he…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“This photograph, this swipe of grain, so briefly glimpsed: I could tell it contained extraordinary information. It was black and white. It…

— Martin Amis

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do…

— Anton Corbijn

Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art…

— Nick Brandt

I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the…

— Leonard Nimoy

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or…

— Bill Brandt

The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us 'on pause' in order to document our lives. It is…

— Sherry Turkle

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

— Anthony Quinn

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

— Man Ray

I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.

— William Eggleston

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

— Michael Craig-Martin

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

— Susan Sontag

We had a giant framed picture of Keith Richards in our house growing up, so that was fun.

— Sarah Sherman

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

— Nigel Dennis

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

— Martin Parr

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

— Jessica Lange

People want to share their photos publicly with lots of people.

— Mike Krieger

I can't move five feet without somebody wanting a photograph or an autograph.

— James Bowen

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

— William Klein

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

— Samuel Palmer

Hahahaha...you so funny...but not as funny as your face... My photography teacher in 8th said this. lol

— Anonymous

The idea of words and photos was something that appealed to me.

— Robert Barry