Photography Quotes · Page 122

“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”

— Munia Khan

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

— Peter Falk

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

— David Hockney

Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.

— Christian Marclay

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

— Garry Winogrand

Oh my gosh You could be stalking anyone's photos though.

— Anonymous

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.

— Andreas Feininger

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

— Wynn Bullock

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a…

— Bridget Riley

The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality.

— Herbert Bayer

I like to take pictures of my Starbucks cups because, while I don't think my name is that difficult, apparently it is!

— Briga Heelan

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism"…

— Hedi Slimane

“If you're waiting for a sign from the skies to become a great photographer, the extraordinary images that suddenly appear before you…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

— Ralph Gibson

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

— Howard Hodgkin

I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors,…

— Alex Prager

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you…

— Carol Tavris

Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its…

— Andreas Feininger

It's a little bit over the top. I feel the same in my head I guess. I was quite a paranoid person…

— Robert Pattinson

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the…

— Ansel Adams

We're in the age of the selfie. It's just encouraging vanity. It's not even representative of anything except how you want people…

— Lily Allen

“Without that discovery of the "moving photo," the world today would not be what it is: the new technology has become, primo,…

— Milan Kundera

The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph.…

— Bill Bailey

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

— Bruce Gilden

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

— Harry Lloyd

I ts amazing how few pictures can bring back so many memories.

— Ritu Ghatourey

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

— Ambrose Bierce

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

— Mason Cooley

I am not a person who will create unnecessary controversies for the camera.

— Rahul Vaidya

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

— Dorothea Lange

“Late night work and random selfies always go hand-in-hand”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.

— Nan Kempner

“A picture is worth a thousand words…and a video is worth a million pictures…”

— Ankala Subbarao

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

— Burt Lancaster

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

— Charles Baudelaire

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

— Zoe Kravitz

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

— Joyce Tenneson

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

— Alex Prager