Photography Quotes · Page 138

It's not that I'm confident, but I feel it's okay for me to continue taking photos.

— Rinko Kawauchi

It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

— Jim Gaffigan

“We are poor passing facts. warned by that to give each figure in the photograph his living name.”

— Robert Lowell

I can't tell if you have a better life than me, or better photo filters.

— Anonymous

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

— Elliott Erwitt

“put my copy on the document camera so students can see how I read and annotate as I go.”

— Cris Tovani

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

— Martin Parr

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

— Robert Henri

“time-wasting vortex where you find yourself poring through the wedding photos of someone you’ve never met instead of meeting a work deadline;”

— Laura Marshall

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is…

— David Bailey

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

— Helmut Newton

I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to…

— Karen Civil

People askwhy do you take so many pictures? my response Because I love being me. Themthat's selfish. MeIt's definitely not because why…

— Kendall Fithian

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a…

— David Hockney

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

— Doc Brown

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of…

— Loretta Lux

When I finished playing, I didn't think I would be able to replace the buzz you feel at kick-off, but when the…

— Alex Scott

No medium is more limited than any other. It's what a person does with it. We could talk about the differences between…

— Bill Henson

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside…

— Susan Meiselas

Any one who knows what theworth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little…

— Anonymous

As a relentless gatherer of moments, I find that my favorite images, although grounded in the present, are like spirits shaped by…

— Sylvia Plachy

I hate taking pictures. I never look at them, otherwise I would have to change everything. I prefer not to see any…

— Megan Fox

There is no need to pose for anything - you just walk straight and strong and be clear. We are all born…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

I don't need a photograph because you've never left my mind

— Anonymous

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

— Beaumont Newhall

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

— Andy Warhol

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.

— Jacques Bertin

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

— Sam Abell

Life is much more beautiful to me when looking through the camera lens.

— Nishan Panwar

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

— Sune Rose Wagner

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

— Vito Acconci

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

— David Dobrik

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

— Bill Brandt

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

People are always stopping me and asking for photos.

— Dylan Alcott

Treat your friends like your pictures, put them into the best light.

— Jennie Jerome

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

— Bruce Forsyth