Quotes About Photography

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

individual family. It showed an infant's face blown up so big it was blurry.

Pointing and clicking like Annie Leibovitz

With the daguerreotype everyone will be able to have their portrait taken—formerly it was only the prominent—and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same, so we shall only need one portrait.

In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make his own tiny eternities -- it was this intimacy I sought, hte closeness of the living and the dead.

Eventually, the photographer had tried to catch her unawares, but she seized his camera and broke it over his skull. Fortunately, he lived; but there are no photographs of my grandmother anywhere on the earth. She was not one to be trapped in anyone's little black box. It was enough for her that she must live in unveiled, barefaced shamelessness—there was no question of allowing the fact to be recorded.

My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn't destroyed them.

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography.

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.

I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

Jimi Hendrix selected one of her photos for the cover of Electric Ladyland.

Wayne didn't interact with nature. He took pictures of it with his iPhone and then bent over the screen and poked at it. His favorite thing about the lake house was that it had Wi-Fi.

I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

The fight for photography became my life.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.