Photography Quotes
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Photography Quotes & Sayings
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Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
— Shannon L. Alder
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
— David Lynch
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
— John Szarkowski
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
— Elliott Erwitt
I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
— Emmet Gowin
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.
— Katja Michael
You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.
— Seamus McGarvey
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
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
— George A Tice
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.
— David Sedaris
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
I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.
— Gregory Crewdson
The only way to kill death is through photography.
— Jean Cocteau
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
— Eliot Porter
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
— Thomas Ruff
A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.
— David B. Lentz
Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
— Mary Ellen Mark
An image is better than one thousand words
— Confucius
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
— John Paul Caponigro
I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,
— Duane Michals
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
— Saul Leiter
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
— Francesca Woodman
I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.
— Sebastiao Salgado
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
— Mia Wasikowska
Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.
— John Szarkowski
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 was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
— Annie Leibovitz
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
— Andreas Feininger
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
— Ralph Steiner
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
— Trent Parke
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
— Paul Caponigro
Sharpness is overrated.
— Keith Carter
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
— Steve McCurry
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
— Graciela Iturbide
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
— Georges Didi-Huberman
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
— Wynn Bullock
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
— Minor White
Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
The best zoom lens is your legs.
— Ernst Haas
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
— Dorothea Lange
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
— Donatella Versace
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
— Katherine Waterston
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...
— Freeman Patterson
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
— Rebecca McNutt
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.
— Garry Winogrand
Photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum.
— Andy Grundberg
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
— Matthew Modine
The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
— Catherine Opie
Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities.
— Michael Kenna
For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.
— Wynn Bullock
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
— Georgia May Jagger
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— Pablo Picasso
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
— William Albert Allard