Photography Quotes · Page 147

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

— Bill Jay

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

— Lisa Kristine

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

— Christophe Agou

I'm breaking all the rules directing a picture with animals, kids - and talking mice!

— Rob Minkoff

Sometimes photographers mistake emotion for what makes a great street photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

— Joanne Froggatt

It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.

— Gary Goetzman

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

— Alice Dellal

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they…

— Cindy Sherman

When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that…

— Jamel Shabazz

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs.…

— Annie Leibovitz

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I…

— Gordon Parks

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no…

— Graeme Le Saux

For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That…

— Ori Gersht

I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to…

— Andre Breton

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller…

— Susan Sontag

If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a…

— Ai Weiwei

“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm…

— Doug Stanhope

Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures…

— Patti Smith

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and…

— Gerhard Richter

When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina…

— Medardo Rosso

See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You…

— Chuck Close

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

— Nikki S. Lee

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

— Steven Spielberg

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some don't have the film.

— DaniAlla And Her BFF

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

— Galen Rowell

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

— Jock Sturges

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

— Pablo Picasso

I must admit that it's not my favourite thing to have cameras everywhere.

— Martin Odegaard

I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.

— Aparshakti Khurana

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

— Joe McNally

Life is like a camera focus on what's important and you'll capture it perfectly !!!

— Melchor Lim

“A photograph is a frozen moment, but a great photographer captures the soul of that moment.”

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.

— Carl Forti

Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.

— Kevin Russo

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

— David Bailey