Photography Quotes · Page 81

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

— Annie Leibovitz

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

“staring at the picture of President Clinton and Monica Lewinski”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

— Eddie Adams

Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

— Taylor Momsen

I took journalism classes and television production classes, always volunteering to appear on camera.

— Ryan Clark

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

— Jake Lloyd

I will have my publicist pull pictures of the way I look at events so I can see, 'Oh, that cut is…

— Allison Williams

At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. She was standing one foot on a…

— Janet Evanovich

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

— Saul Leiter

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you…

— Michael Snow

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of…

— Peter Wollen

It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to…

— David Carson

I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try…

— Henry Rollins

Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with…

— Subcomandante Marcos

Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious…

— Gregory Crewdson

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental…

— Gisele Freund

My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said…

— W. Eugene Smith

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of…

— Andrea Thompson

“The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park,…

— Alan Moore

When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge…

— Ralph Gibson

Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to…

— Walker Evans

Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.

— John Baldessari

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

— John Szarkowski

Photoshoot fresh, looking like wealth I'm bout to call the papparazzi on myself.

— Jay Z

When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.

— Waheeda Rehman

The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

— A. D. Coleman

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

— Lauren Greenfield

Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule completely mistaken.

— Pablo Picasso

Some artist make art with paint while others make art with light

— Nigel McKain

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

— Lewis Baltz

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

— Bill Jay

Now people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest.

— Peter Lindbergh

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

— Sebastiao Salgado

I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures.

— Thomas Demand

The awkward moment when somones watching you take a picture of yourself...

— Anonymous

Photography is truth...and cinema is truth 24 times a second.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would”

— Oscar Wilde