Photography Quotes · Page 118

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

— Megyn Price

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

— Jack Welpott

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

— Richard Avedon

As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

— Jay Maisel

“Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like applause.”

— A.K. Nicholas

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

— Charlaine Harris

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

— Mark Carwardine

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into…

— E. J. Hughes

It's hard to understand why just walking around for two hours and taking pictures would be just a big deal, but once…

— Scott Kelby

One day I'd love to hire a space shuttle fly in to space and hover above the earths atmosphere. Just so I…

— Ryan Swain

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

— Ai Weiwei

I feel that a picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things. They’re things that…

— Vincente Minnelli

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to…

— Berenice Abbott

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be…

— Alan Perlis

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I…

— Sandra Bullock

Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of…

— Trevor Paglen

“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine…

— Gabriel García Márquez

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him…

— Bill Brandt

“I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled…

— Marisha Pessl

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true…

— John Loengard

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by…

— Susan Sontag

I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to…

— Mary Ellen Mark

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

Am I a camera shy person here? haha.. I got these stolen picture.

— Shennon Fabiano

“Love is the color in the black and white photography!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

— Anne Hathaway

That awkward moment when someone is watching you take a picture of yourself.

— Anonymous

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

— Jaume Collet-Serra

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

— David Hurn

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

— Giles Duley

Came thru new , Now I got good news, My niggas gone Pop ya , If you actin kinda rude ,

— B Brown

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

— Chuck Close

I hate Zoom. Mainly because I hate staring at my own face.

— Natasia Demetriou

When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

— Sam Shepard

I play 'Call of Duty' a lot with the photographer, Gunner Stahl.

— Nav

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

— Jerry Uelsmann

“The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.”

— Jodi Picoult