A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. — Robert Doisneau
A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever. — Raghu Rai
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed — Richard Avedon
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. — Eudora Welty
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. — Brigitte Bardot
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter. — Jerzy Kosinski
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. — Dorothea Lange
A good photograph is knowing where to stand. — Ansel Adams
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
Short Picture Taken Quotes
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. — John Locke
Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. — Helmut Newton
The camera can photograph thought. — Dirk Bogarde
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. — Robert Heinecken
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph — Bruce Gilden
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde
To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis — Henri Cartier-Bresson
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it. — Edward Steichen
Picture Taken Image Quotes
Success - See your goal; Understand the obstacles; Create a positive mental picture; Clear your mind of self doubt; Embrace the challenge; Stay on track; Show the world you can do it!
Taken Picture Quotes
I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’ — Humphrey Bogart
I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art. — Alexander Rodchenko
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
If you want to be taken seriously, be consistent.
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see — James Van Der Zee
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days. — Jack Kerouac
The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature. — Paul Cezanne
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me. — Madonna Ciccone
Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite. — John Cena
I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero. — Rita Hayworth
I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it! — Eva Longoria
Getting Your Picture Taken Quotes
You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done. — David Allen
But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer. — Keanu Reeves
You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself. — Tom Welling
Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy George's house to get your picture taken is like going to David Copperfield's island for a radio opportunity. — Chelsea Handler
You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature. — Jeff Foxworthy
Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be. — Brian Tracy
What Is A Picture Quotes
Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story — Saul Bass
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tuley
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey
My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture. — Leonard Nimoy
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two. — David Fincher
Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures. — Annie Leibovitz
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions. — Garry Winogrand
My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap. — Bette Midler
Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay. — Michele Bachmann
There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad. — Alexey Brodovitch
What Are Some Good Quotes
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process! — Frances Parkinson Keyes
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Unknown
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! — Dr. Seuss
I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones. — Ravi Zacharias
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Miguel de Unamuno
When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want. — G-Dragon
It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid. — Douglas Hofstadter
Even if we can agree that some things are natural and some are not, what follows from this? The answer is: nothing. There is no factual reason to suppose that what is natural is good (or at least better) and what is unnatural is bad (or at least worse). — Julian Baggini
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. — Henri Frederic Amiel
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. — Howard Zinn
Photo Session Quotes
My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes. — Kerry King
I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me. — Eva Herzigova
Richard Avedon taught me that if you go into a photo session and come out with what you had hoped for, it’s a failure. You need to be surprised if you want it to be magical. — Amy Arbus
Sometimes people confuse contrivance and authenticity, and sometimes I think authenticity can get in the way of a good excuse to do something theatrical. I just don't like wasting opportunity - if you're going to do a photo session, if you're going to walk on stage, why not make it interesting? — Johnny Marr
How do you convince radio to play you? How do you make a good video? How do you pose for a photo session that conveys who you are? These are real challenges that if you get wrong in the real world, you're done. — Matt Serletic
I vaguely remember doing [all my] photo sessions, but definitely there were some surprises there for me. — Cassandra Peterson
I think, cumulatively, I probably have done more photo sessions than just about everyone. Maybe as much as a supermodel. I know they model all the time, but have they done it for 35 years? I don't think so. — Cassandra Peterson
You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything. — Carol Friedman
So I always get in some kind of situation where next thing I know it's four a.m. and I go, uh oh, I have a photo session first thing in the morning! — Lita Ford
Taking Pictures Quotes
I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities. — Saul Leiter
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation — Gregory Crewdson
In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. — Audrey Tautou
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? — Ron Reagan
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper. — Helena Christensen
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937) — Robert Capa
YouTube is the vlogs and my life, then Instagram is comedy skits and pictures that I take. Twitter's text, and Instagram Stories is even more behind-the-scenes vlog stuff. I'm always posting. — Jake Paul
It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. — Susan Sontag
Family Picture Quotes
If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile? — Maria Bamford
My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese. — Jay London
When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong. I recommend taking a lot of family pictures as evidence to the contrary. — Connie Schultz
In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family. — Trey Songz
I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. — Shirley Jones
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. — Amos Bronson Alcott
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. — Rodney Dangerfield
An entire wall in my home is covered with framed pictures of my family and friends. It's nice to go home after a long week of traveling for work and be reminded of memories with the people I love. — Karlie Kloss
One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times. — Shaquille O'Neal
We [me and my husban] like to honor both of our family traditions whenever possible . We show the girls lots of pictures and tell a lot of stories about both of our childhoods. We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language. — Adriana Lima
I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly. — Kylie Bax
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say? — George Carlin
I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken. — Johnny Ramone
President Bartlet:
There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room. — Aaron Sorkin
My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet. — Steven Tyler
The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually. — Roger Ballen
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken
You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn from looking at pictures taken by well-known people, but they don't really get intimate with the medium until they've made a few bad shots! — Cecil Beaton
I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion. — Carey Mulligan
I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken. — Alfred Eisenstaedt
A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. — Steven Wright
The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice. — Asa Butterfield
I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken. — Anthony Mackie
At 10, I was intrigued by surgery, I wanted to be a surgeon for a long time. I love doctor shows and surgery shows. Blood is not an issue for me. I even took pictures once of me getting my blood taken. — Sayings
I don't think it's necessary to worry too much about being authentic. I think a picture taken on an iPhone and then filtered through something to make it look like it was taken on a Super 8 camera can be just as authentic as something taken on a Super 8 camera, if it's capturing something real or beautiful. — Andrew VanWyngarden
I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken. — Ashley Olsen
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States. — Edward Said
I hate having my picture taken. — Zara Phillips
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis. — Emily Procter
Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more! — Thomas Pynchon
I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see. — George Michael
If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability. — Justine Kurland
I think the first picture taken is often the best one. — Carine Roitfeld
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use. — Henri Matisse
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul. — Eric Clapton
Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning. — Wendy Beckett
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! — John Sexton
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. — Lucian Freud
I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone. — George Hamilton
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