Photography Quotes · Page 117

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself.

— Thomas Demand

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

— Lauryn Hill

Memories pass by man what a great feelin' to hold glad moments like a picture when you film it

— C-DASH

Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.

— Chris Burkard

I don't like pictures of me showing my hair sticking up in back.

— Billy Squier

Not a couple cameras now they bring the whole crew. Bad bitch ride wit me so she pose too.

— Wiz Khalifa

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

— Chuck Close

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is…

— Duane Michals

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just…

— Dorothea Lange

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is…

— William Eggleston

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say…

— Carine Roitfeld

There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should…

— Alexey Brodovitch

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that…

— Minor White

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

— Bill Eppridge

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

— Henry Van Dyke

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my…

— Kelly Osbourne

A photographer who wants to see…must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance…

— Freeman Patterson

“we were all itching for dick jokes and male bonding. The team took photos for the web site on an abandoned construction…

— Gaimon Phil

Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice…

— Eliot Porter

The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I…

— Armand Hammer

There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls…

— Alberto Korda

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was…

— Tim Walker

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

— Chris Jordan

“The pictures do not tell what one is going through.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

— Tino Sehgal

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

— Kim Weston

“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?”

— Mariam Khan

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

— Roy DeCarava

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

— John Berger

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

— Agnes Varda

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

— Sam Abell

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

“You don't choose whats in the picture but you decide on the frame,”

— John Green

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

— Salim Akil

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

— John Paul Caponigro

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

— Andy Warhol

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

— Chrissy Teigen