Photography Quotes · Page 143

If I'm DJing, and you stop me and take a picture? That's annoying.

— Mustard

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

— Martha Rosler

“We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.”

— Chris Lynch

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

— Edward Abbey

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

— Mordicai Gerstein

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

— Jelena Jankovic

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

— Demetri Martin

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

— Dorothy Parker

“I considered. As Tatsu noted, if word got out, the efficacy of the camera network would be compromised. But there was more.”

— Barry Eisler

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there…

— Martin Parr

Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have…

— Ernst Haas

The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're…

— Thad Cochran

“Paint for Mac Pro is the best Mac version of paint program used to edit image, filters and paint on Mac. A…

— effectmatrix.com

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when…

— Matthew Modine

Dear semi hot girl taking photos on a boat. It's not your boat so stop acting like you own it. You drive…

— Dane Cook

I had a neighbour who was a photographer, and he'd always say, 'I am going to shoot you' and I would always…

— Nidhhi Agerwal

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think…

— Larry Clark

I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met…

— Michael Buble

We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos,…

— Alan Schaaf

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a…

— Aaron Huey

My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes,…

— Yves Klein

I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems…

— Sandy Skoglund

“Words present us with little pictures, clear and familiar, like those that are hung on the walls of schools to give children…

— Marcel Proust

I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations…

— Ethan Hawke

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

— Steffi Graf

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

— Josef Koudelka

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

— Edwin Land

This camera sucks for quality but its a recent picture of me soooooo HERE!!

— Jon Hawes

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

— China Machado

“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I prefer to be at home with my husband and children than attacked by photographers.

— Caroline, Princess of Hanover

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

— Sebastiao Salgado

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

— Douglas McCulloh

In a portrait, I’m looking for the silence in somebody.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Every photography is an open ended visual statement.”

— Ellis Mbeku

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

— John Newman

I love that I have no inhibitions. I like to be shameless in front of the camera.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Once you learn how to free up in front of the camera, it's like nothing else.

— William Jackson Harper

A photograph must come from imagination and not be a reflection of what is.

— Thierry Mugler