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Quotes About Photography

Ultimately photography is about who you are. It's the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.
~ Leonard Freed
Photography is the truth if it's being handled by a truthful person.
~ Don McCullin
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.
~ Sally Mann
In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online?
~ Sherry Turkle
You really believe that there are subjects that shouldn't be photographed?' George said. He spoke evenly and softly. 'Maybe I do,' I said, thinking aloud. 'You believe in censorship then,' said Stephen. I looked up at Stephen. His face was tight, combative. 'Not censorship,' I said slowly. 'That's external. I mean control from the inside. After all, pictures can lie, too, can convey falseness rather than truth.
~ Siri Hustvedt
It's almost too perfect - the poster girl for an illness in the early days of photography sees the world in black and white.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
~ Sarah Sutton
I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.
~ Graeme Le Saux
Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
~ Jacques-Henri Lartigue
You can't photograph if you're not in love.
~ W. Eugene Smith
I love a natural look in pictures.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.
~ Jan Saudek
I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!
~ Kendall Jenner
I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.
~ Larry Sultan
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.
~ Larry Towell
I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.
~ Candice Huffine
I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.
~ Eva Herzigova
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
~ Fay Godwin
Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.
~ Nan Kempner
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 love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.
~ Ryan Lewis
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
~ Winona Ryder