Photography Quotes · Page 123

The digital camera has given me total freedom and a different way of filming.

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Between was and is you’ll find me—but most of the time you’ll only find me in pictures.”

— Jarod Kintz

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

— Harry Dean Stanton

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

— Edmund White

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

— Helmut Newton

I have all my contact sheets filed, from the first photograph I took to the present day.

— Mary McCartney

Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

— Ralph Steiner

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the…

— W. C. Sellar

The picture can tells thousand of words, but your memories in that event are enough to fill thousand of buckets.

— Nathaniel Quimada

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of…

— Susan Sontag

What I find really interesting is, whenever you see the person who gives you the portrait of yourself, the portrait seems to…

— Hilary Hahn

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed.…

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

I'm an unabashed sports photo fanboy, the kind of weirdo who seeks out the infinitesimal picture credits.

— Steve Rushin

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

— Norman Parkinson

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history…

— Gerard Malanga

I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I…

— Brian Skerry

I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite…

— William Klein

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely…

— Charles Baudelaire

Where do these images comes from and where do they return? What is it that projects these images? How is it that…

— Frederick Lenz

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm…

— Catherine Opie

I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was…

— David Salle

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if…

— Vincent Van Gogh

My favorite type of photography - apart from fashion photography - is journalism, which in a way documents something that exists in…

— Mario Testino

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

— Lynda Barry

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

You need a GoPro camera and some fun mounts to capture the chaos.

— Jamie Anderson

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

— Edvard Munch

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

— Josef Koudelka

“An out-of-context picture is worth a thousand lies.”

— Gloria Piper

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

— Susan Sontag

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

— David Hurn

Sometimes you feel uncomfortable taking a photograph, but that's all part of the job.

— Martin Parr

On photo shoots I've always had to do that - take direction and whatnot.

— Daisy Lowe

Facebook rule 1: If I'm not in your photo, don't tag me in your photo.

— Ronald Oliver

No matter how long its been, every time I stare at the pictures we took, it still feels like yesterday.

— Mahmoud El Hallab

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I love taking photos of the American flag fluttering in the wind.

— Jonathan Capehart

The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

— Jacob Aue Sobol

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

— Donald Trump