Photography Quotes · Page 115

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

— Dewitt Jones

“when you take a photograph of someone, you take a portrait of their soul”

— Winna Efendi

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

— Helmut Newton

I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.

— Jay Maisel

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

— Edward Weston

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.

— Essie Davis

Yea, I edit my pictures, and I make them look smoother, but who cares?

— Anonymous

If you think your picture needs something, take something out.

— Harvey Dunn

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model…

— Andre Bazin

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…

— Joan Didion

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know…

— Annie Leibovitz

“I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past”

— John Green

There is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on…

— Richard Quest

Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love…

— Jeff Bridges

“There are times when one is with their camera that beautiful and magical things will come into view. Do not let them…

— Christopher Paul Flateau

The recent extraordinary discovery in Photography, as applied in the operations of the mind, has reduced the art of novel-writing to the…

— Lewis Carroll

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I…

— John Sayles

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't…

— Madonna Ciccone

When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures.…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

We're so conditioned to the syntax of the camera that we don't realize that we are running on only half the visual…

— Adam Fuss

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping…

— Paul Feig

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph…

— Susan Sontag

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

— August Strindberg

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

— Kathy Ireland

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

— Jamaica Kincaid

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

— Juergen Teller

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

— Laurel Nakadate

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-sized holes”

— Andrea Gibson

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

— Zak Bagans

People are narcissistically obsessed with taking pictures of everything they eat.

— Topaz Page-Green

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

— Susan Sontag

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

— Sylvia Plachy

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.

— Peter Diamandis

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

— Brian Froud

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

— Ernst Haas

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

— Frederick Sommer