Best Photographic Sayings

94 Photographic quotes by 76 unique authors

What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition… — Frans Lanting
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. — Roger Ebert
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. [The topless Interview… — Keira Knightley
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood,… — Andreas Feininger
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see… — Leonard Nimoy
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a… — Roland Barthes
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by… — Edward Steichen
Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not… — Ruth Bernhard
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as… — Michael Kenna
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities. — Michael Kenna
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.… — Gerhard Richter
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that… — Daniel Clowes
An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we… — Arthur Eddington
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I… — W. Eugene Smith
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped… — Cecil Frank Powell
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them… — Helmut Gernsheim
It is through our technology that we have been able to fly far away from earth to learn, in truth, how precious it is. It… — Dixie Lee Ray
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability… — Ernst Gombrich
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do… — Ben Shahn
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary… — Gerhard Richter
It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to… — Carolyn Porco
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and… — E. J. Hughes

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