Photography Quotes · Page 107

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

— Lucy R. Lippard

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.

— James Lafferty

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

— Brian Williams

If I put up a hot photo, people think I am only interested in doing raunchy roles or special songs.

— Tejaswi Madivada

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

— Anton Corbijn

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

— Henry Holmes Smith

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

— Jeff Bridges

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

— Diane Arbus

Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop…

— Henry Winkler

[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.

— Blaise Aguera y Arcas

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of…

— Helena Christensen

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line…

— Robert Frank

When I think that I started this career so early, my case is not the case of an artist who becomes popular…

— Shakira

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen…

— Courtney Barnett

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They…

— Marshall McLuhan

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The…

— Wes Studi

Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without…

— Igor Babailov

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best…

— Devendra Banhart

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but…

— Gore Vidal

My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when…

— Peter Lindbergh

I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to…

— Miles Aldridge

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make…

— Trevor Paglen

We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not…

— Gilles Peress

There are so many video cameras in time sq. Who ever planted this truck is screwed.

— Ashton Kutcher

Imagine if your mirror secretly took snapshots of you and posted it ONLINE.

— Anonymous

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.

— Joel Sternfeld

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

— Neil Armstrong

I love photos because they never change even when the person in them does!

— Beckie-Arianne

I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.

— Brigid Berlin

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

— Annie Wersching

Cool things happen when I'm not having the camera..:(

— Asli

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

— Robert Collier

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

I can't be anonymous by reason of your confounded photographs. (To Julia Margaret Cameron)

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

— Elliott Erwitt