Quotes About Photography

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you can go."

My family is really boring. They have a coffee table book called 'Pictures We Took Just to Use Up the Rest of the Film.'

I love a natural look in pictures.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

A picture doesn't bring someone to life. A picture is a death of the moment when the picture is taken. Whenever you look at a picture, time dies again.

What right did she have to take photographs of strangers? But she knew these faces....These people had been made to feel inadequate, abnormal. Their lives were disfigured by circumstance.

My parents were not one for photography, and my dad earned the nickname 'Henry VII' for his ability to slice the heads off of subjects for his snaps

I'm a cat person. I have two giant cats [Harry and Arturo] that I call the small panthers. They're like 17 pounds each-they're big boys! Every photo on my phone is of them doing something funny.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

Here's a picture of me with REM. That's me in the corner.

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.