Photography Quotes · Page 121

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

— Graciela Iturbide

One of the photographers was like, "Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?"

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

— Walker Evans

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

— Frank Deford

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

— Kim Shattuck

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

— Chuck Close

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else

— Alan Ladd

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

— Terry Richardson

Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with…

— Nick Kelsh

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a…

— Annie Leibovitz

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact…

— Joshua Reynolds

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of…

— Patricia Piccinini

Back in the day with Ronnie Coleman, there's a fairly famous photo with me doing the bicep pose with him. I also…

— Scott Steiner

From creating a new sovereign to affairs of the heart, majestic moments to everyday life, when monarchy wants to send a message…

— Lucy Worsley

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact…

— Pat Conroy

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In…

— Martin Parr

The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing…

— Mary Pilon

My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that…

— Arthur Tress

It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness,…

— George Saunders

I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason,…

— Stella Vine

Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I…

— Yousuf Karsh

I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the…

— Eugene Richards

“Are we not, all of us, in some way, damaged mirrors? Are we not constantly engaged in focusing the light of thought—memories…

— Yael Shahar

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

— E. J. Hughes

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

— Anonymous

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

When the camera is on, I am an actor; otherwise, I am an ordinary person.

— Nana Patekar

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

— Kim Edwards

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

— Bill Jay

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

— Paul Fleischman

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

— James Lapine

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

— Roman Jakobson

The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

— Sienna Miller

“Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer”

— Walter De Mulder

My son does a little photography, but he's not involved the way I was.

— Kim Weston

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

— Drake

“it is not unusual to sift through ashes and find an unburnt picture”

— Nikki Giovanni

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.

— Anonymous