Photography Quotes · Page 36

Only photograph what you love.

— Tim Walker

I don't take pictures of myself.

— Katy O'Brian

All photography is propaganda.

— Martin Parr

The best camera is the one you have with you.

— Jay Maisel

You need minimum color for maximum effect.

— Jay Maisel

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

I would never invite cameras into my life again.

— Jessica Simpson

What I did, anybody can do.

— Weegee

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.

— Robert Frank

With documentary, you just pick up a camera and start.

— Gaspar Noe

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

— Neil Leifer

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

— Imogen Cunningham

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I can't tell if you have a better life, Or better photo filters.

— Emalie Newhall

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

— Steven Wright

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

— Brent Spiner

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

— Katherine Center

A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?

— Bill Jay

“Nobody ever took my picture. They didn't want to. Or I wouldn't let them. You were the only exception.”

— David Levithan

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture…

— Sam Abell

A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction…

— Martin Schoeller

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior…

— Paul Valery

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be…

— Mary Ellen Mark

“He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories.…

— Shannon M Mullen

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We…

— Ernst Haas

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful,…

— Andre Kertesz

For each final photograph, I'll have shot loads of film. I suppose people don't see all that. But when someone looks at…

— Catherine Yass

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it…

— John Sexton

Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very…

— Leonard Shlain

This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting…

— Bryce Pinkham

A picture is worth a billion words based on effert.

— Brandon McCaw

A picture is the expression of an impression

— Ernst Haas

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

— Arnold Newman

I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

All the Yes album covers are Brasky family photos.

— Bill Brasky

“Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.”

— Amit Kalantri

I do not like being in front of the camera.

— Kelly Wearstler

Self centered people only take pics of themselves.

— Anonymous