Photography Quotes · Page 139

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

— Lynne Tillman

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

— Man Ray

To be a photographer you must have something to say about the world.

— Paul Strand

“If life were a camera, i would be feeling a little out of frame.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist.

— Peter Lindbergh

“There is a danger in letting a camera make all its preprogrammed decisions for you:”

— Robert Hirsch

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

“Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!”

— Mark Denman

I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and…

— Karlie Kloss

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first…

— William Monahan

They don't photograph nah, they don't sex like you. Let's face it, I can't replace it. That's why all I want is…

— Miguel Jontel

To look, to record, to inscribe, to reproduce, to imitate, to reveal, to imagine are for me the seven keys of photographic…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them…

— Bruce Gilden

It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like…

— Joel Kinnaman

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the…

— Annie Leibovitz

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic…

— Helen Mirren

When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the…

— Reed Morano

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose…

— Dennis Hopper

When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it…

— Kendra Wilkinson

A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due…

— Roman Vishniac

If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from…

— Leonard Nimoy

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with…

— Martin Parr

I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with…

— William Eggleston

Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph ~~ Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you

— Paul Simon

“Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

— Ansel Adams

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

“To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you.”

— Sloane Crosley

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

— Sam Abell

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

— Kevin Smith

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

— Inge Morath

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

— Ruth Bernhard

My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is

— Robert Mapplethorpe

“Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

— Aubrey Plaza

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

— E. W. Howe

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

— Edward Weston

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

— David Hockney