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Quotes About Photography

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
~ Louis de Bernieres
I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.
~ Helmut Newton
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.
~ Helmut Newton
There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
~ Jock Sturges
I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
~ Boris Becker
I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.
~ Ben Shahn
The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.
~ Sienna Miller
I love photographs. I love taking photographs. When I see something that's great, I want to capture that. You put it out there and on a place like Instagram you can put it there and review it later.
~ Reggie Watts
Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
~ Duane Michals
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
~ Duane Michals
A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
~ Alison Jackson
I hate red-carpet photographs!
~ Kirsten Dunst
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
~ Martin Parr
Some guys can run fast, some guys can sing, I found I could take photographs that people were interested in.
~ David Douglas Duncan
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
~ Joanna Lumley
I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
~ Orlando Bloom
I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.
~ Gia Coppola
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
~ Duane Michals
I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid for, but they're not made for order. I've never really done real commercial work.
~ Anton Corbijn
I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski
I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.
~ Marty Stuart
I'm not a businesswoman... I never looked after my negatives and you need that to prove you took the photographs.
~ Astrid Kirchherr
I watched the first week of 'Hell's Kitchen'. It was fascinating to see Marco Pierre White because I've only ever seen him in moody photographs.
~ Paul Kaye
I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
~ Saul Leiter