Photography Quotes · Page 112

When finding the right angle for a shot...'Move your ass.'

— Jay Maisel

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace.

— Duane Michals

Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain.

— Swami Vivekananda

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

— Chuck Close

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

— Salman Rushdie

I don't know how much longer I can go on without my becoming known as 'the camera woman.'

— Mariette Hartley

I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.

— David LaChapelle

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

— Todd Hido

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager.…

— Colin Hanks

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original…

— Gerhard Richter

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then…

— Elliott Erwitt

“It was hard to see where he was going, and he was careful not to damage the camera, so expensive that his…

— Kevin Wilson

I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel…

— Nina Menkes

I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals…

— Melanie Martinez

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange…

— Joel Sternfeld

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days…

— Aubrey Beardsley

By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or…

— Frank Horvat

When I first asked to take pictures of women at their homes, I was using my formal camera and I struggled to…

— Olivia Arthur

I hope I'm able to achieve more on camera through stillness, through focus, through being quite careful to do less on every…

— Ben Kingsley

Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead…

— Robert Benton

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his…

— Edwin Land

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…

— Tom Verica

When the cameras are there all the time you know, it's hard and you can't forget about them.

— Victoria Silvstedt

The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.

— Bob Gill

“Life is a photo album half black and white half color.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

— Jock Sturges

Instagram is great but I'm not an amazing photographer and I don't wanna post selfies constantly.

— Shannon Purser

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

— Stanley Kubrick

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

— Lewis Hine

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.

— Willy Ronis

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

— Stephen Sondheim

I was interested in photography from my college days and wanted to become a cinematographer.

— Rao Ramesh

It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'

— David Seltzer

“An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

— Joel-Peter Witkin