Quotes About Photography

When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.

I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.

I always liked taking photographs.

With my mum, I grew up watching her taking photographs, but with your parents, you just go, Those are my parents. Then you get to a certain age and, if youre lucky, you have the opportunity to talk to them.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

I never really learned photography.

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid.

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.