Photography Quotes

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

~ Berenice Abbott

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

~ Layne Staley

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

~ Parker Stevenson

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

~ Jamie Chung

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

~ Dorothea Lange

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

~ Lois Greenfield

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

~ Alberto Korda

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

~ Patrick Demarchelier

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

~ Patti Smith

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.

~ Stanley Kubrick

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

~ Edvard Munch

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

~ Sunidhi Chauhan

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

~ Martin Parr

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

~ Sarah Sutton

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

~ Anton Corbijn

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

~ Zoe Sugg

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

~ Edward Steichen

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

~ Elliott Erwitt

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

~ Steven Pinker

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

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

~ John Berger

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

~ Edward Steichen

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

~ Bob Iger

Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.

~ Ren Ng

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

~ Joe Mcnally

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

~ Robert Mapplethorpe

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

~ Matthew Modine

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

~ Viggo Mortensen

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

~ Sam Abell

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

~ Galen Rowell