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Quotes About Photography

We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.
~ John Sexton
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
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
I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.
~ Gianni Versace
I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
~ Helena Christensen
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
~ Lena Olin
I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.
~ Logan Lerman
I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.
~ Lotte Jacobi
I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
~ Mandy Moore
I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there's something going on inside them.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
~ Minor White
Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
~ Nancy O'Dell
The photographer fiddled with his hot white lights. 'Show us how happy it makes you to write a poem.' I stared through the frieze of rubber-plant leaves in Jay Cee's window to the blue sky beyond. A few stagey puffs were traveling from right to left. I fixed my eyes on the largest cloud, as if, when it passed out of sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.
~ Sylvia Plath
Adjust the viewfinder to your eyesight. This step is critical; if you don't set the viewfinder to your eyesight, subjects that appear out of focus in the viewfinder might actually be in focus, and vice versa. If you wear glasses while shooting, adjust the viewfinder with your glasses on — and don't forget to reset the viewfinder focus if you take off your glasses or your prescription changes.
~ Julie Adair King
Entre las muchas maneras de combatir la nada, una de las mejores es sacar fotografías...
~ Julio Cortazar
En alguna parte Morelli procuraba justificar sus incoherencias narrativas, sosteniendo que la vida de los otros, tal como nos llega en la llamada realidad, no es cine sino fotografía, es decir que no podemos aprehender la acción sino tan sólo sus fragmentos eleáticamente recortados.
~ Julio Cortazar
Viata, ca un comentariu despre ceva ce nu putem cuprinde si care se afla aici, la un pas de saltul pe care nu-l facem. Viata, un balet cu un subiect istoric, o istorie intemeiata pe un fapt trait, un fapt trait bazat pe un fapt real. Viata, fotografiere a numarului, posedare in neguri (femeie, monstru?), viata, proxeneta a mortii, splendid joc de carti, tarot cu simboluri uitate pe care niste maini deformate de guta il reduc la o biata pasienta.
~ Julio Cortazar
she has a four-year-old named Justin. She shows you pictures; kid looks like he'll be dropping an album if she's not careful.
~ Junot Diaz
Ash hob die Kamera vom Schoß und machte ein Foto von ihren Knien, dann von einem ihrer Schuhe. Beide Bilder verschwanden im Rucksack. "Kunst?" "Sie schüttelte den Kopf. "Nur mein Leben.
~ Kai Meyer
To me, it's so much about doing your homework, going into a situation, getting to know the subject, making them feel comfortable, getting intimate access, getting access to all different aspects of people's lives so that I am essentially telling an entire story and not just a single image.
~ Lynsey Addario
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
~ David Hockney
I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.
~ Bill Cunningham
Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
~ Rachel Sklar