Photography Quotes · Page 89

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

— Sally Kohn

“A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.”

— Jean Cocteau

I do not take selfies. I photo bomb my phone while it's taking pictures of itself in the mirror.

— Green Monk

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

— Jock Sturges

I will run around and people chase me and try to get photos with me.

— G Flip

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

— Ernst Haas

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.

— Peter Diamandis

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there,…

— Maurizio Cattelan

“The photographer had caught her midlaugh, and the defiance of her bared teeth and wide lips gave her face a hint of…

— Libba Bray

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda;…

— Walker Evans

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through…

— Lisa Joy

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to…

— Ivan Klíma

It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions…

— Richard Avedon

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery,…

— Berenice Abbott

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

“Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. A curlicued swing set in a…

— Ransom Riggs

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in…

— Frans Lanting

“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality…

— Sara Quin

If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture...…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what…

— Greig Fraser

I didn't intend to work on the issue of child marriage, but I felt like it was a topic that is related…

— Stephanie Sinclair

I don't really have a treasured possession, but I do love my family's proper old photo album. We all have hundreds of…

— Nicola Walker

I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story.

— Brian Froud

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

— Susan Sontag

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

— Sylvia Plachy

“When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See!”

— Mark Denman

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

— Martin Parr

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

— Frederick Sommer

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

— Jamaica Kincaid

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

— Juergen Teller

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

— Kathy Ireland

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

— August Strindberg

People are narcissistically obsessed with taking pictures of everything they eat.

— Topaz Page-Green

“Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-sized holes”

— Andrea Gibson

I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.

— Zak Bagans

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

— Laurel Nakadate

In the late '80s, as a child, I used to shoot short films on my friend's wedding camera.

— Sajid Khan