Photography Quotes · Page 141

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

— Alfred Stieglitz

It's only when I faced the camera that I realised how confident I was on screen!

— Mrunal Thakur

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

— Helmut Newton

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.

— Brendan Dooling

I never knew my titties was bigger than Pamela. So paparazzi be flickin' they camera.

— Nicki Minaj

My Blackberry is incapable of taking a clear photo, but in this case I think it worked in my favor.

— Anonymous

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

— Robert Breault

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first…

— Sam Raimi

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not…

— Walker Evans

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an…

— Mary Ellen Mark

She asked what have I learned since getting richer? I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

— Drake

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera…

— Neil Gaiman

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day,…

— William Klein

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

— James Nachtwey

“...the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show…

— Celeste Ng

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records…

— Charles Sheeler

I've got loads of photographs of me at home with two orbs that visit me. The two that I have are about…

— Noel Edmonds

You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What…

— Mario Sorrenti

The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two…

— Pierre Reverdy

Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of…

— Joyce Tenneson

“One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture’s center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His…

— Michael Lewis

My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was…

— William Wegman

The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene…

— Janet Malcolm

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

— Trent Parke

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.

— Donatella Versace

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

— Dorothea Lange

And life ain't a rehearsal the cameras always rollin

— Drake

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

— Willy Ronis

When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history.

— Herb Ritts

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again

— Phil Anselmo

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

— James Nachtwey

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

— Jay Maisel

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

— Vik Muniz

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

— Rineke Dijkstra

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

— Djuna Barnes

I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.

— Jock Sturges

“If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.”

— Deeksha Mittal

If Andy Warhol asks if he can take your photo, you say yeah!

— Russell Mael