Quotes About Photography

Hey, ho, let's go: Joey Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone, Bowery, 1977. Photo by GODLIS.

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Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

I love retouching images on Photoshop.

If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.

I love taking pictures of food.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the "copy.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.