Photography Quotes · Page 83

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

— Monica Vitti

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

— Edward Weston

I've realized what I want to do in life in that I just love being in front of the camera.

— Michael Sorrentino

I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

— Peter Lindbergh

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

— Richard Avedon

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

— Gerhard Richter

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

— Bill Viola

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

— Diane Arbus

As an actor, you've to be honest while giving any shot, the camera is same in any medium, the sound system, too.…

— Amit Sadh

Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of…

— Elsa Hosk

I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take…

— Joan Collins

You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.

— Rondal Partridge

“Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present tense, everyone captured in a moment that will never come again.”

— Natasha Solomons

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit…

— Wolfgang Petersen

“There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside…

— Stephen Braxton Thompson

I believe that every photographer, every artist, should choose materials and equipment based on their own vision. I don't believe that non-digital…

— Michael Kenna

I guess my choice of medium depends on how I want to interpret the idea. Sometimes the interpretation works best in a…

— Wardell Milan

“Remember, the IMAGE of yourself and the lifestyle you're living on a daily basis appreciates with time, it doesn't depreciate. So imagine…

— Lebo Grand

When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I…

— William Wegman

“When I looked through old pictures of my family, I always thought that the reason why they looked dusty was because of…

— Lunga Noélia Izata

In most of my photographic pieces I have manipulated the quality of the evidence that people assign to photography, in order to…

— Christian Boltanski

I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary…

— Matthea Harvey

Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

— Orlando Bloom

I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

— Richard Griffiths

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

— Wynn Bullock

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

— Dave Eggers

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

— William Klein

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

— Win Butler

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

— Grant Mudford

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

— Samantha Morton

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

— Annie Leibovitz

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

— Harry Callahan

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

— Ken Rockwell

I don't play it different in front of the camera than I do when no one is around.

— Jerome Bettis

A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

— Anonymous

For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.

— Sebastiao Salgado