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Photography Quotes

Lines on framing the world one shot at a time.

This collection gathers thoughts from photographers on why they picked up a camera in the first place, from using it as reference material for painting to treating Art itself as inseparable from color and composition.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

Quotes by Adam Jones

I never really learned photography.

Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

Quotes by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

Quotes by William Albert Allard

About Quotes

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

Quotes by Val Kilmer

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Quotes by Tony Benn

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Quotes by Todd Phillips

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Quotes by Tipper Gore

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Quotes by Teju Cole

Always Quotes

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Quotes by Steven Soderbergh

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Quotes by Steve Sabol

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

Quotes by Sol LeWitt

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

Art Quotes

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

Quotes by Sebastiao Salgado

I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but...

Quotes by Sebastian Lelio

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

Quotes by Sean Durkin

Digital photography makes you a better photographer.

Quotes by Scott Kelby

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.

Quotes by Saul Leiter

Know Quotes

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.

Quotes by Saul Leiter

Several quotes here describe photography as its own way of showing what writing alone cannot capture. Pair them with our About quotes for more reflections on craft and purpose.