Photography Quotes · Page 60

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

— Dziga Vertov

Yo momma's so fat her high school graduation picture was an aerial photograph.

— Anonymous

I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

— Ori Gersht

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

— Robert Frank

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

— David Dobrik

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

— Bill Brandt

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of…

— Wynn Bullock

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

— Laurie Simmons

The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of…

— Ramon Rodriguez

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In…

— Anonymous

“Would you still want to travel to that country if you could not take a camera with you --- a question of…

— Nayyirah Waheed

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

— Ansel Adams

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one…

— Susan Sontag

That's the one thing that's funny about going from modeling to acting. In modeling, you're supposed to think about what you look…

— Emily Ratajkowski

There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating,…

— Anders Petersen

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck…

— Jefferson Han

“Even in pictures of their youth, old people look old. He watched as the pictures moved to crisp black-and-white and then to…

— John Green

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The durational aspect of video art is very different from photography or sculpture. The idea of looping things interferes with that a…

— Marco Brambilla

Celebrities were quick to understand that paparazzi could make icons of them. The more a star is followed and admired, the greater…

— Ron Galella

Life is much more beautiful to me when looking through the camera lens.

— Nishan Panwar

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

— Sune Rose Wagner

Maybe I had to stop photographing so that I could learn to touch.

— Vito Acconci

Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

— Pieter Hugo

A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making.

— Jacques Bertin

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

— Sam Abell

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

— Andy Warhol

“Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you.”

— Sloane Crosley

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

— Kevin Smith

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

— Sam Abell

Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul.

— Inge Morath

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

“Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

The negative is the score, and the print the performance.

— Ansel Adams

“To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.”

— Kristin Hannah

Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph ~~ Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you

— Paul Simon