Photography Quotes · Page 146

There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

— Samuel Butler

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine.

— Berenice Abbott

Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices

— Bill Jay

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

— Simon Travaglia

“If the eye does not see, the camera would not either”

— Theo de Pree

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

— Shomei Tomatsu

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

— Massimo Vitali

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

— Ted Grant

Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on…

— Diane Keaton

To be honest, it's always still a bit weird for me to be in front of the camera and posing, because when…

— Serge Gnabry

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and…

— Loretta Lux

At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph,…

— Rankin

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

— Teju Cole

I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the…

— Jay Cassidy

I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of…

— Alex Prager

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and…

— Chuck Close

So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what…

— Allen Ginsberg

I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would…

— Marina Abramovic

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly…

— Elizabeth Ross

Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas…

— Patrick Demarchelier

There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in…

— Scott Schuman

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in…

— Aaron Siskind

“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the…

— Eudora Welty

Life is like photography, You use the negatives to develop.

— Brad

I hope you're proud of yourself, and those pictures you took.

— Jessica Rabbit

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

— John Szarkowski

A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

— Edward Steichen

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

— Arthur Schnitzler

“A picture, after all, is just a symbol, a metaphor for something that cannot be translated.”

— Shelan Rodger

At my little brothers baseball game :) The sunset was so pretty! ^_^

— PrettyBlueEyes

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

— Joyce Tenneson

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

— Cassandra Clare

I draw badly. Photography's much easier than drawing.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

— Ansel Adams

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

— Patty Jenkins

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

— Elliott Erwitt

I am very proud of my husband, both behind the camera and in front of the camera.

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

— George Stevens