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With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.
— Anton Corbijn
Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou. — Scott Bourne
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
— William S. Burroughs
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
— David Lynch
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
— Andrew Zuckerman
If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.
— Eddie Adams
Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.
— Bill Jay
He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold.
— Terry Pratchett
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
— Sarah Sutton
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.
— Katja Michael
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 myrelationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
— Lauren Greenfield
I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial.
— David Hockney
It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.
— David Sedaris
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
— Robert Genn
A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence.
— Machado De Assis
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
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
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
— Peter Diamandis
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
— Edward Weston
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
— John Szarkowski
Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.
— Kelly E. Lindner
It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.
— John Taylor Gatto
I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.
— Drew Barrymore
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
— Patrick Demarchelier
The school should teach a class on deciphering obscure images in bad photography. Amanda's photos could make up the textbooks.
— Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
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[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.
— Philip Jones Griffiths
Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.
— John Szarkowski
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
Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.
— Annie Leibovitz
It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.
— Mary Mattingly
Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.
— Robertson Davies
- How do you make your pictures? - I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?" "It's very much like photography really," said Dermot. "Quite a good comparison of yours.
— Agatha Christie
It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
— Diane Arbus
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
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
— David Hockney
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
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
— Sally Mann
I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.
— Harry Callahan
Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.
— Edward Steichen
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
— Minor White
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
— Sebastiao Salgado
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
— Gregory Crewdson
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.
— Freeman Patterson
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
— Mary Ellen Mark
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
— Garry Winogrand
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
— Mia Wasikowska
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
There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.
— Pablo Picasso
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
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
— Abraham Lincoln
It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere.
— Henry Wessel Jr.
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
— Henry Wessel Jr.
I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.
— Anton Yelchin
There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution.
— Jay Maisel
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
— Annie Leibovitz
That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.
— Derek Ridgers
I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.
— Buzz Osborne
Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.
— Helmut Newton
When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.
— Stella McCartney
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
— Walker Evans
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.
— Andrea Modica
