Photography Quotes · Page 109

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

— Diane Arbus

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

— Richard Avedon

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

— Bill Viola

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

— Gerhard Richter

I've realized what I want to do in life in that I just love being in front of the camera.

— Michael Sorrentino

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

— Peter Lindbergh

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

— Edward Weston

I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

— Richard Griffiths

Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and…

— Beaumont Newhall

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

— David Bailey

Sometimes people think too hard on what to capture.. &Most of the time it's not what you capture… It's how you capture…

— Anette Sandberg

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them…

— Nate Lowman

Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera…

— Craig Gillespie

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Cameras are supposed to help you relive a moment, but if you never live the moment in the first place, because you…

— Abhijit Naskar

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make…

— Dalton Trumbo

“The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of mental events…

— James David Lewis-Williams

May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal…

— Jan Phillips

“This is not a how-to book. It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book. In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never…

— Judith Mason

I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have…

— Alfred Stieglitz

“There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the…

— Nancy Mitford

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!…

— Mark Twain

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]…

— Andre Bazin

“I was in Sarasota, Florida, on a spring-break trip with my friends Bruce and Karen Moore. Bruce and I were waiting on…

— Amy Grant

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

— Orlando Bloom

“My condition is the same without camera, like fish without water.”

— Lovinder Rattan

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

— Dorothea Lange

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

— Anonymous

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.

— Stacy Martin

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

— Anonymous

I'm still learning and I'm still growing as a photographer.

— Daniel Berehulak

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.

— Walter Rosenblum

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

— Monica Vitti

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

— Alfred Stieglitz

A lot of fashion photographers are telling a story with their pictures.

— Eoin Macken

A click doesnt picture the world...it pictures our imagination

— Shakeel Alam

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates.

— Susan Sontag

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

— Diandra Asbaty

Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.

— Marion Cotillard