Photography Quotes · Page 53

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

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

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

— Christophe Agou

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

— Lisa Kristine

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

— Rob Minkoff

A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in…

— Dan Gilroy

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“My own seal.” “Imitated.” “My photograph.” “Bought.” “We were both in the photograph.” “Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but…

— Tod Papageorge

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took…

— Sam Abell

“When asked about his photographic techniques, Arthur “Weegee” Fellig, a photojournalist from the 30s and 40s, answered, “f/8 and be there.”

— Tony Northrup

I LOVE PICTURES,... because the best thing about them is that they never CHANGE,... even when the people in it do..

— Anonymous

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but…

— Annie Leibovitz

In the age of camera phones and screenshots and Twitter… At the end of the day, I want to share my life…

— Joe Manganiello

To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul…

— Edward S. Curtis

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible…

— Garry Winogrand

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk…

— Annie Dillard

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow…

— Paul Strand

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one…

— Peter Lindbergh

When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum- a band- all around the galleryseeing this…

— Nancy Spero

You can't do what you've been asked to do unless you do the best you can. And roughly speaking, the best you…

— Vanessa Redgrave

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

— Bill Jay

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

— Wolfgang Tillmans

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

— George Stevens

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

— Pauletta Pearson Washington

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

— Elliott Erwitt

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

— Khalil Gibran

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

— David Alan Harvey

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

— Ken Jennings

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

— Alexander Rodchenko

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

— Anne Geddes

“Each of those photos proves a different thing. All those things add up to the truth.”

— Chris Pavone

I think, if my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me.

— Christy Turlington

Your not a photographer, you're a spoiled brat with a Nikon.

— Anonymous

I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.

— Rachel Maddow

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

— John Knoll