Photography Quotes · Page 145

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

— Dino De Laurentiis

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

— Sally Mann

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

— Eva Herzigova

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

— Ari Graynor

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

— John Paul Caponigro

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

— Banksy

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

“Photographs tell a story," Alison mutters. "But people forget to read between the lines.”

— A.G. Howard

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be…

— Dennis Lehane

Photography is very subjective. Photography is not a document on which a report can be made. It is a subjective document. Photography…

— Robert Doisneau

To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.

— Trevor Paglen

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get…

— Elliott Erwitt

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and…

— Eve Arnold

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative…

— Cole Sprouse

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera…

— Lotte Jacobi

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be…

— Graciela Iturbide

Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so…

— Anne Hathaway

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this…

— Ansel Adams

I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll…

— Marina Abramovic

My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the…

— Taylor Steele

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't…

— Yung Lean

Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this…

— Joan Fontcuberta

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.…

— Keith Carter

There are people who want photographs and autographs when they meet me.

— Hima Das

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

— Sarah Moon

I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

— Fatima Sana Shaikh

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

— Garry Winogrand

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

— Thomas Ruff

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

— Lewis Carroll

You can always tell a great photographer because they make you feel super-relaxed.

— Lynne Ramsay

Photoshop will not save you from future embarrassment.

— Anonymous

I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life.

— Gerard Pique

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

— Pablo Picasso

“The very weather seems to have a quality of the past, faded weather like that of old photographs.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.

— John Szarkowski

To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression.

— Eikoh Hosoe

I don't have a digital camera. I don't understand it - and I don't want to.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I have been modelling since I was four years old so facing the camera is second nature to me.

— Ayesha Takia