Photography Quotes · Page 52

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

— John Paul Caponigro

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

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Nobuyoshi Araki

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

— Nikki S. Lee

Rockin the lazy day lmao my cuzz behinde me tryin to photo boom me. v.v FAIL!!! :)

— Mee

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

— David Bailey

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

— Kevin Russo

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

— Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

— Susan Sontag

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

— Taylor Kitsch

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here…

— Lou Reed

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize…

— Paul Harvey

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front,…

— Sam Abell

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different…

— Edward Hopper

I vehemently oppose clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op, especially a photo op that makes a mockery of a…

— Mike Espy

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One…

— E. M. Forster

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean,…

— Elliott Erwitt

i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall…

— Richard Avedon

“Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it…

— Roland Barthes

I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I…

— Julio Cortazar

I painted two pictures of myself lately, one of which has rather the true character ... I always think photographs abominable, and…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and…

— Dennis Hopper

If you see an image and it's just an image, and there's a bad link or no description, and you don't know…

— Evan Sharp

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

— Melchor Lim

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

— Carl Forti

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

— Joe McNally

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

— Aparshakti Khurana

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

— Martin Odegaard

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

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

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

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

— Joyce Tenneson

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

— PrettyBlueEyes

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Shelan Rodger

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

— Arthur Schnitzler

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

— Edward Steichen

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

— Jessica Rabbit

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

— Brad