Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Bana

I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.

James Balog

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

Norman Mailer

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Parkinson

I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

Orson Welles

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.

Winston, I don't know what I want, but I want you to go out and get it. When I see it, I'll know if it's what I thought I wanted. (Quoting a photography client.)

Emile Zola

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Ellen Goodman

We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

Joe McNally

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

Joe McNally

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Joe McNally

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

Joe McNally

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

Joe McNally

We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.

Joe McNally

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

Joe McNally

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Joe McNally

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Patti Smith

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Patti Smith

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.

Kirk Douglas

Virtue is not photogenic.

Judith Butler

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

Paul Emsley

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

Marshall McLuhan

Nobody can commit photography alone.

Marshall McLuhan

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

Marshall McLuhan

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Marshall McLuhan

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

Paul Auster

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

Julia Margaret Cameron

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Julia Margaret Cameron

My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

Keira Knightley

I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

Keira Knightley

I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. [The topless Interview shoot] was one of the ones where I said: 'OK, I'm fine doing the topless shot so long as you don't make them any bigger or retouch.' Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are. I think women's bodies are a battleground, and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

Keira Knightley

Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

Julian Barnes

Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

Kim Edwards

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.