Photography Quotes · Page 63

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

— Garry Winogrand

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

— Anonymous

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

— Alfred Stieglitz

Who said a picture is worth a 1000 words ??!! ... when I looked at your picture I was even speechless!!

— Ali Bassam

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

— Charles Baudelaire

If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

— Paul Strand

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

— Herb Ritts

Oddly, I'd been to most of the locations where I started photographing slavery many times before. I even considered some of them…

— Lisa Kristine

No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed,…

— Anonymous

People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to…

— Dawoud Bey

We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain,…

— Matthew Heineman

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of…

— Ma Jian

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad…

— Alison Jackson

“I believe all photographers want to be remembered for their images. They reflect a piece of their soul.”

— Christopher Paul Flateau

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d'�tre. The photograph is a fixed moment…

— Andre Kertesz

The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with…

— Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

“The late-afternoon light was thick and orange and she passed four different couples taking photos of themselves on the same cobblestoned block,…

— Catherine Lacey

Photography is a pursuit that allows you to be very hands-on with what you show people of either yourself or the art…

— Cole Sprouse

Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead…

— Joseph Goebbels

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world…

— Susan Sontag

Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime…

— Michael Kenna

I love all of these new products that are coming out, things like headphones with cute, catchy names. There is also so…

— Stephanie Seymour

I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts…

— Bindi Irwin

In a drama, the camera doesn't exist. In a documentary, it does.

— Gareth Edwards

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

— Vivian Fuchs

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

— Brassai

That awkward moment when you don't know how to smile when someone is taking a picture... O_O

— Anonymous

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

— Edward Steichen

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

— Anonymous

“Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.”

— Diane Ackerman

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

— Jen Kirkman

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

— Julian Lennon

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic.

— Douglas Sirk

I do glamorous photoshoots but I don't like nudity and I am against it.

— Rakhi Sawant

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

— Nan Goldin

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Literally me taking a picture. Omfg, how many fails :'D I can never make a perfect one. I'm sorry. =/

— Jazzy

I love doing photoshoots; it let's me really show off my personality, flair, and makeup within a photo.

— Jeffree Star