Photography Quotes · Page 72

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.

— Bert Hardy

I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.

— Emma Kenney

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

— Man Ray

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure?

— Robert Capa

My entire career has been behind the camera, and that's definitely where I'm most comfortable.

— Lindsay Shookus

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

— PJ Harvey

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work…

— Tod Papageorge

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you…

— Margaret Bourke-White

“A picture is not going to be like a stone that has been subjected to the rain and the heat and the…

— Refaat Alareer

I definitely try to keep some level of style on my days off because you never know who's going to snap your…

— Jesse Lee Soffer

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows…

— Marcel Proust

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

I lived in 'Geordie Shore' where we had cameras stuck to every wall of the house, filming 24 hours a day. We…

— Charlotte Crosby

Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.

— David Douglas Duncan

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's…

— James Nachtwey

I think a lot of times photo sessions is just a test, maybe, for models. Sometimes it's for money. I'm going to…

— Richard Kern

I like to take things as they come and, as much as possible, not force anything. I think I could wind up…

— Hayden Christensen

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own.…

— Robert Smithson

There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any…

— A. Scott Berg

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then…

— Paul Caponigro

The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings…

— Jurgen Teller

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were…

— Joan Didion

For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.

— Zeenat Aman

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

— Joseph Goebbels

“Once a picture was taken, the experience was purged of its power to haunt.”

— Tatjana Soli

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

“If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.”

— Deeksha Mittal

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

— Joel Sternfeld

I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask…

— Christopher Doyle

I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.

— Jonathan Nolan

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

— Woody Guthrie

“Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs.”

— Federico García Lorca

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

— Freeman Patterson

“Yeah, it's a kodak moment. Quick, take a picture. Sarah scoffs. I stick my tongue out at her.”

— Annie Brewer

Some images stick with you forever, images that you can't unsee.

— Abby Johnson

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.

— Nigel Barker

I think I have made just one picture that I really like...

— Ingmar Bergman

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin