My Photography Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about My Photography

My Photography Quotes & Sayings

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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. — Ansel Adams

My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right. — Ernst Haas

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history. — Mathew Brady

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep. — Henry Wessel Jr.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like. — Robert Rauschenberg

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. — Anton Corbijn

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful. — Larry Towell

[photography] ... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way. — Oliver Sacks

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. — Sarah Sutton

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

The pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models. — Edward Weston

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. — Terry Richardson

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost. — Nan Goldin

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot. — Solange Knowles

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography. — Jim Lee

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life. — Jamel Shabazz

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy. — Richard Avedon

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K. — Lauren Greenfield

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that. — Rosie O'Donnell

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses. — Margaret Bourke-White

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes. — Dewitt Jones

My father did advertising photography. — Andreas Gursky

My parents were not one for photography, and my dad earned the nickname 'Henry VII' for his ability to slice the heads off of subjects for his snaps — Mark Barrowcliffe

I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going. — George A Tice

Photography is a very important part of my life. — Conrad Hall

Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn't been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me. — Ida Lokas

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg. — Sebastiao Salgado

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me. — Edward Weston

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career. — Giles Duley

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand. — Bill Jay

The world makes up my pictures, not me. — Lee Friedlander

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. — David Hockney

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. — William Eggleston

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves. — Elliott Erwitt

I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it. — Russell James

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. — Lewis Baltz

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well. — Lewis Carroll

There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home. — Justine Kurland

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work. — Robert Barry

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. — Christophe Agou

My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph. — Bill Jay

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. — Bruce Gilden

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography. — Douglas Kirkland

What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. — Jillian Barberie

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there. — Anton Corbijn

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. — Sigmar Polke

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. — Herb Ritts

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here. — Keith Carter

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras. — David Suchet

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession. — Alfred Stieglitz

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. — Ansel Adams

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. — Diane Arbus

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not. — Aleksandar Hemon

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up. — Keira Knightley

Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture! — Marius Vieth

It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. — Robert Breault

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it. — Ruth Bernhard

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. — Brian May

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature. — Eliot Porter

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind. — Erik Johansson

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it. — David Bailey

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life. — Sebastiao Salgado

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment. — Rene Burri

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. — Oscar Wilde

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration. — Man Ray

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point. — Ernst Haas

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can — John Sexton

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. — Keith Stanfield

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. — Mia Wasikowska

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better. — Gia Coppola

And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that. — Danny McBride

I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace, — Duane Michals

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul. — Eric Clapton

My sympathies have always been with the everyday people ... the center of my photography. — Jerome Liebling

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. — Alberto Korda

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important. — Paul Strand

Photography was my choice of weapons. — Gordon Parks

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography. — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. — Joan Fontcuberta

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other. — Jack Welpott

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. — Jason Sudeikis

Photography is my passion. — Alfred Stieglitz

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow. — Imogen Cunningham

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. — Jessica Lange

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. — William Albert Allard

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness. — Mark Denman

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not ... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting. — John Gutmann

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches. — Gjon Mili

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously. — Raghubir Singh

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions. — Sebastiao Salgado

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you. — Zoe Leonard

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. — Parker Stevenson