Photography Quotes · Page 111

If someone comes up to me and asks me for a photo, if they do it politely, I'm always going to say…

— A. J. Pritchard

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

— Marty Stuart

“This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.”

— Jane Alison

John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work.

— Mitt Romney

I'm very camera shy, but I realise it's important to promote films.

— Prabhu Deva

The rarest sight in the world is a woman who is happy with photographs of herself.

— Nikhil Saluja

I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?

— Howard Hodgkin

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they…

— Pablo Picasso

Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's…

— Michael Kenna

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

I'm always trying to make a connection with the person I'm photographing. I don't want to just come away with a shot…

— Mary McCartney

If you have to do more then 3 takes when taking a picture of yourself, its not the angle or the lighting.…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide…

— Gabriel Figueroa

Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous…

— Keira Knightley

I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures…

— Libba Bray

I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a…

— Jamel Shabazz

I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work…

— Joyce Tenneson

We clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people…

— Anonymous

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at.…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The…

— Henri Matisse

Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I loved you more than I love myself and life. In the end all I've left is your photograph

— Jeremy Limn

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

— Sebastiao Salgado

If you looked up the definition of a third wheel, you would see a picture of me.

— Anonymous

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.

— John Baldessari

The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.

— David Hockney

I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.

— Anonymous

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

— David Bailey

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

— David Hockney

If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

— Sydney Pollack

My name is Weegee. I’m the world’s greatest photographer…

— Weegee

I'm one of nine children, and I have a lot of pictures.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

— Lance Ito

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

If someone is wearing something terrific, that's what I want to photograph.

— Bill Cunningham

Love when my friends take stupid pictures with me (:

— Ashton Gross