Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Callahan

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Harry Callahan

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

Harry Callahan

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.

Harry Callahan

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.

Harold Evans

The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

J. G. Ballard

Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.

Italo Calvino

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

Irving Penn

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

Irving Penn

Working on photography is working on oneself.

Irving Penn

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

Irving Penn

Photographing a cake can be art.

Jelena Jankovic

Some of the angles that photographers get on court are not always flattering.

Jeremy Hardy

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

Jeff Bridges

I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

Jean Renoir

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

Jean-Luc Godard

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

Jean-Luc Godard

Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.

Jean-Luc Godard

When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it.

Jim Goldberg

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Jerry Saltz

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

Jerry Saltz

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Photography is a form of time travel.

John Waters

My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV screen. Anybody can do that, but it's the order I put the pictures in to try to create a new kind of movie, something that you can put on your wall.

John Waters

I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.

John Steinbeck

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

Nick Harkaway

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

Sean Durkin

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

Sidney Poitier

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

Seth Godin

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Todd Walker

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

Todd Walker

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

Todd Phillips

I really got into filmmaking through photography.