Photography Quotes · Page 130

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

— Georges Braque

You don't have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera.

— Nahnatchka Khan

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

— Dorothea Lange

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

— Harry Callahan

When I get bored I jump on my lappy an take lame selfies

— Zach

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

— Steve McCurry

“The images in our mind is more vivid than the camera could ever produce.”

— Raigon Stanley

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly,…

— Abelardo Morell

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the…

— Walter Benjamin

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

— Henry Adams

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the…

— Eduardo Risso

No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a…

— Bill Brandt

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in…

— Donna Mills

“A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..”

— Anonymous

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the…

— Garry Winogrand

The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for…

— Elliott Erwitt

We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because…

— Fred Ritchin

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something…

— Andy Summers

My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing…

— Galen Rowell

The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It…

— Mark Rothko

Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.

— Howard Pyle

My dad would always say, 'When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?'

— Angela Ahrendts

“When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.”

— Mark Denman

Ideas and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow.

— Frederick Sommer

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

— Rodrigo Santoro

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

— Robert Adams

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

— Catherine Opie

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

— Andre Kertesz

I love the camera and I guess it's because it's been an integral part of my childhood.

— Sunny Singh

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

— Nikki S. Lee

I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.

— Nelly Furtado

I can report from the field with a tiny camera and a laptop.

— David Muir

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

— Molly Crabapple

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

— Barbara Cook

When I post pictures of my body, I don't Photoshop. I have strong opinions against doing that.

— Andi Dorfman