Photography Quotes · Page 66

That moment when you finally take a decent picture and then asyou continue to stare it gets uglier

— Anonymous

Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.

— Blaise Cendrars

“Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”

— Al Gore

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

— Vincente Minnelli

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

— King Hu

“Photographers are the new Brahmins: we have no volition when they rule us.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

— Theodore Levitt

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

— Mick Fleetwood

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More…

— Chuck Close

When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from…

— Beth Ostrosky Stern

Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind…

— Alison Jackson

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what…

— Alec Soth

The world was waiting to be full of discovery made(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned.you would…

— Margaret Bourke-White

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

— L. Ron Hubbard

People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants…

— Dan Auerbach

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

— Grimes

“A scan of the walls had the grin turning to a wince. Blue ribbons, medals, awards were all neatly framed and displayed.There…

— Nora Roberts

I could Google image search 'the sky' and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can't…

— Ezra Koenig

“I had a dream about you last night. We were in your old Civic. Nine Inch Nails was turned up on the…

— Crystal Hudson

I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or…

— Gerhard

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the…

— Peter Lindbergh

“A camera winks at me from high in the bleachers like we're sharing a secret. Fans in the home section of the…

— Holly Schindler

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes…

— Charlie Brooker

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

— Robert James Thomson

With success comes attention, and when you're in front of the camera, you have to act comfortable.

— Breanna Stewart

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

— Gabriel Lippmann

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

— Trey Songz

I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger.

— James Charles

I think pictures to appeal to those over 30 can be made with quality and on a budget.

— Mike Connors

Most important part about the Fine Art of Sex is that the small spots what really make the picture!

— Milliton MUNNEY

I don't even have photos of my father in my house. I don't allow anyone to put them up.

— Bharti Singh

I’ve never taken a selfie and I don’t plan to start now,

— Anna Wintour

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

— Andre Bazin

“Hey! I’m still fuckin’ this monkey. She’s just here to take pictures.”

— Michael Stephen Fuchs

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

— Graciela Iturbide

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

— Jason Silva

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

— Robert Rauschenberg

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

— Ben Shneiderman