Photography Quotes · Page 102

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

— Ansel Adams

Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.

— Robert Carlyle

My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

— John Coplans

“The picture is grainy. But that’s to be expected when photographing bread.”

— Jarod Kintz

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.

— Diane Arbus

“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”

— Ansel Adams

I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures.

— David Lean

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

— Keith Carter

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any…

— David Hockney

I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I…

— Jesy Nelson

“That's how hospitals get you. You go in to visit and before you know it they got a camera stuck up your…

— Janet Evanovich

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

— Sally Mann

Riding a horse and using a phone camera is tricky but if you don't take pictures or record the moment, you lose…

— Bill Bailey

Oh, Raima and I gel very well on screen. Our natural sibling camaraderie is evident once the cameras started rolling.

— Riya Sen

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

— Allan Sekula

I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes…

— Ransom Riggs

As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the…

— John Desmond Bernal

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. You always want to come back with an image that's…

— Anton Corbijn

I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as…

— Andy Warhol

Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in…

— Howard S. Becker

We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at…

— Laura McPhee

“Open your mouth,” Shane told him and Van did. He grabbed the base of his cock before tracing Van’s lips. He felt…

— Riley Hart

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

— Joseph Morgan

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

— Errol Morris

Cool things always happen when I don't have a camera.

— Anonymous

That moment when you finally take a decent picture and then as you continue to stare it gets uglier.

— Anonymous

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

— James Nachtwey

“When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.”

— Abbas Kiarostami

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are."

— Ansel Adams

Challenge: Take an honest selfie. No Edits. No Filters. (: Your beautiful! Embrace it.

— Meee

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

— Henri Matisse

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

— Ruth Bernhard

I have an art practice, and I make art and photography and stuff.

— RaMell Ross

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

— Keith Carter

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.

— Jamie Hewlett

I have a photographic memory; I just haven't developed it yet.

— Jonathan Winters

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

— Garry Winogrand