Photography Quote by Lee Friedlander Download Open image “The world makes up my pictures, not me.” — Lee Friedlander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Photography World
My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think that nowadays there are more images in the world than world to be in the pictures. — Thomas Demand Copy Share Image
I trust pictures, but no pictures made in my world - because I know what goes on. — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! — John Sexton Copy Share Image
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes. — Darius Khondji Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
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… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a… — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces - it's… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera… — John Knoll Copy Share Image