Photography Quotes · Page 35

I begin by not photographing.

— Jeff Wall

“Photographs are just light and time,”

— John Green

I've hardly taken a photograph since 1967.

— Astrid Kirchherr

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

— Leonard Nimoy

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

— Graydon Carter

Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.

— Destin Sparks

You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory

— Nateman

Allow yourself to lose your way.

— Jay Maisel

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

— Emile Zola

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

— Juergen Teller

It's one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.

— Melanie Martinez

I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.

— Alexa Chung

I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

We'd rather see a picture that we liked then dump on one we didn't.

— Gene Siskel

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

— Michael Kenna

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

— Jean-Francois Millet

At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that…

— Daniel Berehulak

While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in…

— Edward S. Curtis

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.…

— Rondal Partridge

I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do…

— Chris Carter

[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand…

— David Nicholls

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and…

— AJ Lee

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

— Diane Arbus

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to…

— Anton Corbijn

The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture,…

— Matt Damon

You can really shoot things you think might work on camera one way, then you can try it that way, and then…

— Megan Mullally

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such…

— Michael Mann

For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I…

— Michael Kenna

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the…

— Errol Morris

I don't think meeting people that I've done pictures of spoils it at all because I like the really human sides of…

— Elizabeth Peyton

I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I…

— Elliott Erwitt

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops…

— Sarah Moon

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

— Douglas Coupland

There's nothing like being shot on camera.

— Anna Diop

I grew up on camera. I started at 16.

— Mauro Ranallo

Photography has not invented anything.

— Jean-Francois Chevrier

I paint when I cannot photograph.

— Man Ray

I'm not comfortable around cameras.

— Suzanne Collins

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

— Diane Arbus