Photography Quotes · Page 140

Looking at a photograph and wishing you could re-live that moment over and over again.

— Anonymous

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

— Sloane Crosley

Never be afraid to capture it...or someone else will!

— Anonymous

“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.”

— Gregory Heisler

In life, the best moments are those that your camera always failed to capture.

— Anonymous

Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.

— Michael Spiller

“wedding. If you're using a flash, set your white balance”

— Scott Kelby

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

— Ryan McGinley

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

— Robert Henri

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture…

— Aaron Siskind

“Over time his images of the baby, like photographs handled too often, had worn down and creased, lost their definition. ”

— Anthony Doerr

If 5 seconds of smile can make a photograph more beautiful then just imagine, if you keep always smiling, how beautiful your…

— Anonymous

I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.

— George Ezra

In some way, a photo is like a stolen kiss. In fact a kiss is always stolen, even if the woman is…

— Edouard Boubat

'Color' is quite different from 'colors.' In an image with many colors, we find that all the colors compete with each other…

— Jay Maisel

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is…

— Keith Carter

I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to.…

— Leonard Nimoy

...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes…

— David Byrne

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and…

— Bill Brandt

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the…

— Stevie Wonder

People have responded to the pictures I make as mystical things, and they somehow carry the illusion further thinking that the place…

— Richard Misrach

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in…

— Lewis Mumford

Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad,…

— Tina Barney

“Yes. Can you print these pictures and make sure the others have copies? Particularly Barry. He’s Locator in Chief on this one.”…

— Stephen King

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

— Fred Picker

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.

— Lawrence Blume

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

— Raymond Depardon

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

Yo momma's so fat her high school graduation picture was an aerial photograph.

— Anonymous

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

— Ori Gersht

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

— Dziga Vertov

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

— Lewis Hine

Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes.

— Allen Lacy

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

— Tyler Shields

i'm taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day...

— Taylor Swift

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.

— Linda Palmer

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

— Demetri Martin

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

— Danny Lyon

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston