Photography Quotes · Page 70

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

— Kevin Systrom

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

— Eddie Adams

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

My process of working is that I don't create a picture, I find it.

— Sante D'Orazio

I have to grab audience attention even if I don't last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

— Saswata Chatterjee

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

— Guy Le Querrec

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

— Catherine Opie

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

— Brian Selznick

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— magicpicture

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes…

— David Levithan

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many…

— James Welling

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family…

— Helmut Gernsheim

I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my…

— Forest Whitaker

There were moments where people took the to streets and small rebellions, but ultimately it's a change in consciousness - so how…

— Marisa Tomei

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an…

— Jeremy Clarkson

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

— Lucian Freud

“Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever.…

— Pansy Schneider-Horst

“A child’s why led to the development of the Polaroid camera. On a family vacation in the 1940s, Edwin Land’s three-year-old daughter…

— Anonymous

Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a…

— Malick Sidibe

Think about it. If it's taking pictures, it's not a cellphone. If it has a McDonald's app to tell you where McDonald's…

— Newt Gingrich

Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert…

— Annie Leibovitz

“As he heard a brief click, Ralf thought about what had happened in that moment which had already passed. For just one…

— Alex Christofi

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

— Mario Testino

Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.

— Andre Kertesz

A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.

— Dieter Appelt

I'm on camera all the time, so being body confident is important.

— Emily Atack

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

— Paula Rego

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

— William Eggleston

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

— Henry Thomas

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

— Bob Dylan

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

— Adam Yauch

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

— Anonymous

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

— Paul Valery

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

— Peter Greenaway

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

— Emmet Gowin

I am a shy person who is not very okay with the camera.

— Kalyani Priyadarshan