Photography Quotes · Page 86

“Give me the fucking camera, and I won’t press charges for harassment.  I just want the photos.”  He’s”

— Kristen Proby

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

— Eliot Porter

I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

— Mark Rothko

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

— Pablo Picasso

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

— Eric Kandel

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

— Minor White

Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

— Lance Ito

“The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.”

— Jodi Picoult

When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves…

— Mark Kurlansky

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and…

— Paul Delaroche

Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's…

— Edwin Starr

I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me,…

— Kate Moss

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that…

— Martin Parr

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.

— Arthur Rothstein

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and…

— George Eastman

Some people don't even say hello. They come up and say, 'Can I take your picture?' and I'm, like, 'Why?' And they…

— Henry Golding

The advice I would give to any photographer - young, old or in-between - is to explore anything visual because this is,…

— Elliott Erwitt

Many people in this world do jobs that are dangerous and where their life is at risk and they feel that there…

— James Nachtwey

“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,…

— Roland Barthes

What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such…

— Emmet Gowin

The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.…

— Josef Koudelka

One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one…

— Julio Cortazar

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

— Jerry Uelsmann

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

— Giles Duley

Came thru new , Now I got good news, My niggas gone Pop ya , If you actin kinda rude ,

— B Brown

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

— David Hurn

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

— Jaume Collet-Serra

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

Am I a camera shy person here? haha.. I got these stolen picture.

— Shennon Fabiano

“Love is the color in the black and white photography!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

— Anne Hathaway

That awkward moment when someone is watching you take a picture of yourself.

— Anonymous

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

— Charlaine Harris

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

“Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like applause.”

— A.K. Nicholas

I play 'Call of Duty' a lot with the photographer, Gunner Stahl.

— Nav

I hate Zoom. Mainly because I hate staring at my own face.

— Natasia Demetriou

When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

— Sam Shepard