Photography Quotes · Page 142

Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.

— James L. Brooks

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I look at green trees on a sunny day, I don't know how to make an interesting picture of that.

— Edward Burtynsky

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

— Elvis Presley

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make

— Terrence Malick

I wish there was a book of just photos of people's faces taken right before they sneeze.

— Ariana Grande

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

— Garry Winogrand

Just because you have a camera doesn't make you a photographer.

— Anonymous

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can…

— Carol Friedman

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks…

— Mona Kuhn

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

— Henry Wessel, Jr

From running around as an assistant to having the camera following for you is a big step, especially for someone like me…

— Jackky Bhagnani

I love to photograph people in their own environment. It offers clues to what's important in their lives.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a…

— Eadweard Muybridge

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

— Minor White

What happens is that every August photographers camp out in Hyannis Port. So anytime I go down to the beach, or go…

— John F. Kennedy Jr

I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down…

— Lewis Baltz

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world.…

— Geoffrey Batchen

I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...…

— Pedro Meyer

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the…

— Sebastiao Salgado

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the…

— Walker Evans

I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and…

— Derek Ridgers

I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own…

— Frederick Sommer

There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.…

— George W. S. Trow

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

— Oliver Stone

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.

— Gloria Stuart

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

— David Hockney

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. - Unknown

— SangFroid Stalker

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

— Shania Twain

People need to remember that a lot of my growing up was done on camera.

— Megan McKenna

It's embarrassing standing in front of the camera and getting your picture taken.

— Travis Fimmel

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

— Jamel Shabazz

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

— Harold Evans

a likeness different from the products of the God-fearing photographer.

— Vincent Van Gogh

A picture can speak a thousand words. A photoshoped picture speaks a thousand lies.

— Nikhil Saluja

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

— Frederick Sommer

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

— Martin Parr

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

— Francis Bacon

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

— Frans Lanting