Photography Quotes · Page 144

On 'The City,' I allowed the cameras more into my life and I ended up exactly where I was meant to be.

— Whitney Port

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

— Mark Twain

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

— David Hurn

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them.

— Elliott Erwitt

Life is like photography, we use negatives to develop.

— Anonymous

“To take a photo is one thing, to create an image is another”

— Keith Longman

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

— Lewis Hine

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

— Pearl White

“Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little…

— Martin Gayford

You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.

— Vera Farmiga

I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my…

— Leos Carax

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

— Elliott Erwitt

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

— Nikolay Semyonov

It's very intimate. There are certain moments where it feels like it's just you and the lens. It's something that has been…

— Saoirse Ronan

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born…

— Imogen Cunningham

Selfie Is The Proof That Smartphones And Internet Have Made People So Alone That They Don't Find A Friend Who Can Take…

— Velroy Fernandes

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone…

— Anne Hathaway

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education…

— Aaron Scharf

I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it…

— Elaine Equi

You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling…

— Kiki Smith

“Most users chose to run a “voyeur channel,” which was like being the star of your own twenty-four-hour reality show. Hovering virtual…

— Ernest Cline

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me…

— Peter Lindbergh

Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent…

— A. D. Coleman

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are…

— Kevin Macdonald

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

— Carolyn Murphy

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

— William Wordsworth

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

— Pablo Picasso

“For me Photography is about telling a story with Images.”

— Ackeem thomas

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.

— Susan Sontag

Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot.

— Jay Maisel

Pictures make a lot of money doesn't determine whether the experience was...

— Andy Garcia

I'm studying art and photography, like film and digital - a mix of both.

— Brooklyn Beckham

I don't ever mean my pictures to be depressing - I don't believe in making depressing pictures.

— Walter Rosenblum

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide on the frame.”

— John Green

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.

— Brad Paisley

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

— Matthew Modine

Don't think you're a pro photographer just because you use the lazy services of Instagram.

— Anonymous

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

— James Cameron