Quotes About Photography

Vos 10 000 premières photographies seront les pires.

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.

Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.

En la vida como en la fotografía, hay que pasar los negativos a positivos

A photograph prints from the negative only while exposed to the sun. While the artist is looking to see how it is getting on he simply stops the getting on. Whatever of wise supervision the soul may need, it is certain it can never be over-exposed, or that, being exposed, anything else in the world can improve the result or quicken it.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

My father was a photographer at the National Bureau of Standards. A self-educated man, he never finished high school, but in his career at the National Bureau of Standards, he made many useful inventions and eventually became chief of the Photographic Technology Section.

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components of photography itself. Photography uses paper made from trees, water, metals, and chemistry. In a way, I was looking at all these things that feed into photography.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Many a fashion designer's career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect.

Riding a horse and using a phone camera is tricky but if you don't take pictures or record the moment, you lose it. You want to have a record of it.