Photography Quotes · Page 78

Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

— Greta Van Susteren

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

— Jock Sturges

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

— Marshall McLuhan

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

— Ruth Bernhard

Unless there are pictures, I don't admit to anything.

— Courtney Love

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

— Judith Butler

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

— Steve Coleman

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over…

— Annie Leibovitz

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.

— Chase Jarvis

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all…

— Jay Maisel

The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished…

— Victor Burgin

I have been taking pictures for a long time but not without learning properly. I have learnt it from Himanshuu Sheth.

— Waheeda Rehman

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement…

— Gabriel Orozco

It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera,…

— Radhika Apte

Sometimes I think nobody is looking - and then there's still a picture being taken. There are just some complete idiots who…

— Bill Kaulitz

I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of…

— Darren Aronofsky

I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I…

— Anne Geddes

I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take…

— Nikki S. Lee

I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite…

— Joel Meyerowitz

You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then…

— Taryn Simon

PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge.…

— Beanie Sigel

It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

A picture of you is worth more than a thousand words.

— Babloo

“The art of the cinema,’ Truffaut allegedly said, ‘is to point the camera at a beautiful woman.”

— Salman Rushdie

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

The most important thing for me is the image, not the thought.

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

— Gordon Parks

“You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

— Robert Richardson

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

— Roni Horn

If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

— Lola Alvarez Bravo

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

— John Burnside

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

— Antonio Perez

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

— David Hockney

I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.

— Alice Cooper

My selfie game has had to increase by 100 million per cent!

— Naughty Boy