Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Stieglitz

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

Alfred Stieglitz

Photography is my passion.

Alfred Stieglitz

I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.

Alfred Stieglitz

Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.

Alfred Stieglitz

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

Alfred Stieglitz

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

Alfred Stieglitz

I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

Alfred Stieglitz

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Alfred Stieglitz

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Abigail Spencer

I love photography. Photographers and photos. I took a ton of pictures in Paris, and I find that I'm most inspired by following other photographers on Instagram.

Abbas Kiarostami

I never really learned photography.

Abbas Kiarostami

I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

Adam Gopnik

... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

Abraham Lincoln

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Norman Reedus

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Clemence Poesy

When it comes to photo shoots, there was a clear moment for me when I thought, 'I'm going to have to enjoy this because it's going to be a part of what I do.'

Colleen Atwood

I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory!

Common

Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

E. W. Howe

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Busy Philipps

Now that I'm a wiser, older human, when I do photo shoots, I specifically say, 'Please do not airbrush my moles out.' Because they will do it, to make you homogenized.

Paul Simon

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

Paul Simon

...everything looks worse in black and white.

Colin Hanks

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

Annie Leibovitz

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Annie Leibovitz

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

Annie Leibovitz

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Annie Leibovitz

Photography is not something you retire from.

Annie Leibovitz

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

Annie Leibovitz

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

Annie Leibovitz

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

Annie Leibovitz

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry.

Annie Leibovitz

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.