Photography Quotes · Page 75

Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.

— Walter Sickert

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

— Paul Gauguin

I don't have a GoPro attached to me at all times, but I try to raise the camera when it feels right.

— John Wilson

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

— Paul Cezanne

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

— Susan Sontag

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

— Joe McNally

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

— Shweta Tripathi

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

— William Shatner

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it…

— John Gutmann

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way…

— Phyllis Diller

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

— Walker Evans

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

— Catherine Opie

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really…

— Ernest Borgnine

I just love being in front of the camera making people laugh, cry, entertaining them. It's the 'nasha' of performance that I…

— Ranveer Singh

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to…

— Larry Towell

I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand…

— Robert Pattinson

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is…

— Vilem Flusser

It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a…

— W. H. Auden

It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance.…

— Dayananda Saraswati

When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with…

— Russell James

Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the…

— Joyce Tenneson

I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that…

— Ansel Adams

“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So…

— Waswo X Waswo

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”

— David Bate

I didn't think of the cameras at the time of doing this

— Myself Jeremy Renner

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

— Mario Testino

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

— Thomas Pynchon

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

Beautiful nature (also clouds) are therapy for my soul.

— Florya99

I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind

— W. S. Gilbert

When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

— Bill Jay

My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing.

— Kim Weston

I can look around a room and tell you if there are hidden cameras or not.

— Lauren Ash

I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

— Douglas Kirkland

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of the little things it has wished for, but never seen

— Anne

All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

— O. Winston Link

Who sees the human face correctly;the painter the photographer or the mirror?

— Lekan Wahab

Some speak of a return to nature, I wonder where they could have been?

— Frederick Sommer

“Always have a camera in your hand and a book.in your bag.”

— Lauren Rachelle