Quotes About Photography

I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.

I definitely try to keep some level of style on my days off because you never know who's going to snap your picture.

I did not give Angie a French kiss. It was something simple and lovely. She was about to go off to Mexico to finish filming 'Original Sin' with Antonio Banderas. I congratulated her on the Oscar win and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. It was snapped and became a big thing.

If you've ever snapped a picture of your dinner, Nom is for you.

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.

Red carpet is a little bit scary. It's not about expression. It's about taking a pretty picture in a really weird, awkward way, with so many people watching. It's a glamorous part of the job, but it requires its own kind of courage.

When I graduated, I felt a little burned out on taking pictures after so many years of churning out so many for classes.

I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)

la memoria no filma, la memoria fotografía.

Gli uomini gridavano di volere creare un futuro migliore, ma non è vero. Il futuro è solo un vuoto indifferente che non interessa nessuno, mentre il passato è pieno di vita e il suo volto ci irrita, ci provoca, ci offende, e così lo vogliamo distruggere o ridipingere. Gli uomini vogliono essere padroni del futuro solo per poter cambiare il passato. Si battono per poter entrare nel laboratorio dove si ritoccano le fotografie, dove si riscrivono le biografie e la storia.

battles over job and career, over every picture published. She had never been ambitious out of vanity. All she ever wanted was to escape from her mother's world. Yes, she saw it with absolute clarity: no matter how enthusiastic she was about taking pictures, she could just as easily have turned her enthusiasm to any other endeavour. Photography was nothing but a way of getting at 'something higher' and living beside Thomas.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

I don't really mess with Instagram much, but I get why people love it. Because to me, it's better to tell a story through a picture than 140 characters.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

The key of 'The Earth from Above,' and of 'Home' is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.