Photography Quotes · Page 97

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

— Anonymous

I am a singer and don't really need to be in front of the camera.

— KK

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

— Berenice Abbott

I quite enjoy being in front of the camera. If I'm looking good, that is.

— Jack Draper

Currently turning negatives into positives for better pictures.

— Anonymous

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

— Garry Winogrand

My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

— Ezra Stoller

I could take a photo, but I'd rather paint a picture.

— Mac Miller

Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day…

— Om Malik

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a…

— Marshall McLuhan

I got a Leica film camera and just started wandering the streets. What really touched my heart were those unexpected and unplanned…

— Mary McCartney

Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty…

— Ben Eine

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do…

— Massimo Vitali

Yeah, I'm doing some stuff behind the camera. Producing and directing. I feel like my face has been on TV enough in…

— Matt Barnes

“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.”

— William Moulton Marston

The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both…

— Gerhard Richter

In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of…

— Paul Caponigro

I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently,…

— Keith Carter

I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain…

— Lise Sarfati

“I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness in our…

— Kamand Kojouri

When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from…

— Derek Ridgers

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I…

— Keanu Reeves

“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is…

— Alex Morritt

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

— Joseph Mazzello

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

— Weegee

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

— Elle Macpherson

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed,

— Garry Winogrand

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

— Kim Weston

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

— Auguste Rodin

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

— Walter Cronkite

The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.

— Raymond Depardon

In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.

— Susan Sontag

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

— Sam Abell

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

— Minor White

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

— Annie Lennox

I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.

— Robert Barry

A hidden camera can only be a good journalist's last resort. But sometimes, it's the only option.

— Barkha Dutt

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

— Laura Linney