Photography Quotes · Page 87

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

— Chuck Close

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

— Andy Warhol

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

— Chrissy Teigen

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

— John Paul Caponigro

As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

— Jay Maisel

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

— Annie Parisse

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

— Richard Avedon

Photography ruins marriages, and I've been married three times - so there's a downside to it as well.

— Jack Welpott

I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me.

— Cassandra Peterson

I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it…

— Keith Carter

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see…

— Laurel Nakadate

“Sadly, I can’t say that I’ve grown out of my urges to do things because I think that technically, if I were…

— Jen Kirkman

In the Photoshop of life, some of us need sharpening, some of us need resizing, and some of us need a whole…

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in…

— Alexander Rodchenko

“Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable…

— Warren Ellis

Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your…

— Wayne Dyer

Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was…

— Joel Meyerowitz

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at…

— Steve McCurry

I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,…

— Berenice Abbott

I don't story board. I do something else, which is, I block it. We then train to the blocking. In other words,…

— Michael Mann

One thing that I try not to do is take pictures of homeless people or visibly low-income people - not because those…

— Jamelle Bouie

Now there is such a closed loop between realness and commercialism that one has to question why do more and more and…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be…

— Steve McCurry

... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years…

— Carl Mydans

I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!

— Megyn Price

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

— Ambrose Bierce

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

— John Berger

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

— Kim Weston

“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?”

— Mariam Khan

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

— Roy DeCarava

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

— Tino Sehgal

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

— Salim Akil

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

— Sebastiao Salgado

“You don't choose whats in the picture but you decide on the frame,”

— John Green

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

— Patrick Demarchelier

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

— Agnes Varda

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

— Sam Abell

Not a couple cameras now they bring the whole crew. Bad bitch ride wit me so she pose too.

— Wiz Khalifa

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

— Habib Umar bin Hafiz

I don't like pictures of me showing my hair sticking up in back.

— Billy Squier