Photography Quotes · Page 91

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

— Tino Sehgal

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.

— Bruce Gilden

A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face.

— Aldous Huxley

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

— Joyce Tenneson

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

— Anne Geddes

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

— Edvard Munch

Being in front of the camera was very liberating for me.

— Mohit Raina

Sometimes I'll use four or five different photo apps on one photo just to get it where I want it to be.

— Tyra Banks

I love doing photo shoots. . . I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model…

— Lindsay Lohan

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

— Errol Morris

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

— Orlan

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are…

— Lorde

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's…

— Graeme Le Saux

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological…

— Henry Flynt

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

— Marc Riboud

Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses,…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones,…

— Peter Lindbergh

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2…

— Joshua Foer

We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility.…

— Michelle Richmond

When I was asked to be a part of 'The Face,' I was like, 'This is exactly what I do without cameras.'…

— Coco Rocha

The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the…

— Siegfried Kracauer

“What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the…

— Roland Barthes

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's…

— John Szarkowski

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

— Ric Ocasek

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

— Neil LaBute

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

— Bob Dylan

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

— Henry Thomas

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

— William Eggleston

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

— Paula Rego

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

— Emmet Gowin

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

— Paul Valery

Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.

— Peter Greenaway

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

— Anonymous

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

— Adam Yauch

I have to grab audience attention even if I don't last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

— Saswata Chatterjee

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

— Guy Le Querrec

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

— Gregory Crewdson