Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

Jandy Nelson

I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

Jamie Wyeth

When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.

James Wong Howe

Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.

James Wong Howe

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Jann Wenner

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

Janine Turner

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

Janet Malcolm

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Janet Malcolm

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

Jess Glynne

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

Catherine Opie

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

Alain de Botton

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

Alain de Botton

Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

Anton Yelchin

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

Brooks Atkinson

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooke Burke

I just love the world of photography.

Edward Ruscha

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

Edward Ruscha

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

E. W. Howe

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

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.