Photography Quotes · Page 108

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

— Robert Adams

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

— Henri Matisse

“A portrait is a picture with something wrong with the mouth”

— John Singer Sargent

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

— Craig Ferguson

Even if you take picture near washroom, if your beautiful your still beautiful!

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.

— Ashley Olsen

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

— Anne Burrell

In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

— Harold Eugene Edgerton

“A brick could be used to remind me of you. Of course, so could a photograph, but how am I supposed to…

— Jarod Kintz

I am so not one to share body pictures, not that I have anything against them, it's more just like I've never…

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph…

— Kim Weston

Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with…

— Charles Moore

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera…

— Roger Tory Peterson

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

— Bill Jay

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings…

— Christopher Alexander

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator…

— George Lucas

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear…

— Bill Henson

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they…

— Cindy Sherman

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I…

— Bill Brandt

I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted…

— Gertrude Kasebier

So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The…

— Mark Klett

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it…

— Mario Testino

Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.

— Norman Rockwell

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

— Anonymous

I don't play it different in front of the camera than I do when no one is around.

— Jerome Bettis

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

— Ken Rockwell

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

— Harry Callahan

Taking Selfie is a new way of expressing your Emotions.

— Nishan Panwar

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

— Sebastiao Salgado

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

— William Klein

“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

— Dave Eggers

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

— Annie Leibovitz

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

— Samantha Morton

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

— Grant Mudford

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

— Win Butler