Photography Quotes · Page 73

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

— Ray Davies

The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.

— Beaumont Newhall

A PHOTOGRAPH Is Worth A THOUSAND WORDS, But PHOTOSHOP Can Produce A THOUSAND LIES.

— Pacifiersucker

“The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...”

— Roland Barthes

If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture?

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

— Robin Williams

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

— Helmut Newton

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

— Walker Evans

Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera…

— Andreas Feininger

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

When I reach out to people to ask them to be involved in anything I shoot, I want them to want to…

— Keith Maitland

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is…

— Ryan McGinley

The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I consider myself fortunate that photography exists, because otherwise I'd be stuck in the tragedy of ephemeralness that can come with installation…

— Sandy Skoglund

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by…

— Banksy

For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most…

— Sam Abell

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a…

— Alan Moore

Photography really is all about lines, and so is clothing. I worked for Oberto Gili for a couple of years after I…

— Minnie Mortimer

“You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you…

— Blue GhostGhost

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And…

— Nicolas Berggruen

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…

— W. Eugene Smith

I often wonder if it makes me a less interesting person, because it really is music that I geek out about exclusively.…

— Todd Carey

I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read…

— Hans Frank

Keep the pictures; they don't change, only the people in them do

— Anonymous

Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back.

— Hilary Mason

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

— Horace Pippin

“I've seen the photos," he said. "Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.”

— Andrew Pyper

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

— Peter Lindbergh

But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

— Darren Aronofsky

Photo shoot fresh, looking like wealth. Im bout to call the paparazzi on myself.

— Jay Z

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me,

— Andrea Arnold

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

— Marcel Proust

“A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...”

— J. Buchanan

You aint gotta turn the cameras off, just keep it rolling

— Kid Ink

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

— Alexandre Desplat

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

— Andre Bazin

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

— Richard Avedon

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

— Scott Kelby

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

— John Steinbeck