Photography Quotes · Page 136

The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.

— Rainn Wilson

I am better suited to be behind the camera. Frankly, I don't miss being an actor.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

— Eve Arnold

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.

— Errol Morris

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

— Donna Mills

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

— Susan Sontag

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I don't have to think much when I take a photo on my iPhone. I sort of see the iPhone medium as…

— Diana Silvers

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual…

— Stuart Franklin

Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches…

— Victor Burgin

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always,…

— W. Eugene Smith

And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is…

— Lucian Freud

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black & white you photograph their souls.

— Anonymous

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

I have world class photographic red-eye pretty much all the time. As a general rule, if it's taken with a flash, I…

— Neil Gaiman

I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he…

— Kylie Bax

We wonder why black and white pictures capture soul. I think it's cause without color, we aren't drawn to the makup, or…

— Ritu Ghatourey

A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the…

— Stephen Shore

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.…

— Sally Mann

“For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply…

— Annie Leibovitz

I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and…

— Paul Caponigro

“I see it all through the lens of my camera—the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into…

— Emery Lord

My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is…

— Gregory Crewdson

All we did was to turn back the time to a photography of precision which is superior to the human eye.

— Bernd Becher

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

— William Landay

I don't jump in real life, why would I jump in a photo?

— Sara Quin

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

— Emmy Rossum

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.

— Steven Sebring

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

— Lucy R. Lippard

I'm like a hidden camera. I always have everything under surveillance all the time.

— Inspectah Deck

A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

— Pablo Picasso

Like photos in my mind, you the vision in my dreams, and what I see is perfect, I picture you my queen.

— Maino

I wish I could be one of those people who can take a picture at any time and still look beautiful.

— Anonymous

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Treat your friends as you do your pictures and put them in the best light.

— Anonymous

“The photographer's art: To freeze the fleeting masterpieces nature creates at sunrise and sunset.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

You look tight on camera, it sees it. The camera can see everything.

— Luke Kuechly

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

— Jonathan Evison

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

— Eliot Porter