My Love For Photography Quotes

#1. If it doesn't have ambiguity, don't bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography - the mendacity of photography - it's got to have some kind of peculiarity in it or it's not interesting to me.

Sally Mann

#2. I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

Scoot McNairy

#3. 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

#4. Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

Peter Lindbergh

#5. Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.

Lindsey Kelk

#6. A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

Sam Haskins

#7. I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

George A Tice

#8. I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.

Aurelien Roulland

#9. Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.

Larry Towell

#10. I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Sarah Snook

#11. 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.

Abigail Spencer

#12. You keep doing that and your camera is likely to explode."
"Are you crazy?" Alfred smirked. "My camera is like me."
"How so?"
"It adores you," Alfred told him.

Remmy Duchene

#13. I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

Mia Wasikowska

#14. I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

Helen Mirren

#15. I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

Bruce Gilden

#16. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

Greta Salpeter

#17. I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

Harold Feinstein

#18. As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

Julian Lennon

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

Sarah Sutton

#20. I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

Mary Ellen Mark

#21. I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.

Jackie Collins

#22. I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Douglas Kirkland

#23. I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

Arlo Guthrie

#24. I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

David LaChapelle

#25. Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting ... Take photography on as a passion, not a career.

Alex Webb

#26. In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,

Nobuyoshi Araki

#27. Their intensive 1 -day nature photography instructional seminars. Both love to teach others how to make their own fine photographs.

Anonymous

#28. Photography is an act of love.

Jay Maisel

#29. What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

Jessica Lange

#30. 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

#31. I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

Diandra Asbaty

#32. To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Edouard Boubat

#33. 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.

Jandy Nelson

#34. Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

Laurel Nakadate

#35. 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.

Eric Bana

#36. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

Drew Carey

#37. As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.

Jay Maisel

#38. Be in love with the moments of your life.

Matthew Knisely

#39. I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.

Mickalene Thomas

#40. I believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects.

Josef Sudek

#41. I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.

Russell James

#42. The most important lesson in photography is learning to photograph what you love.

Tony Northrup

#43. A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

#44. Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself ...

Rebecca McNutt

#45. A fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

Adam Gopnik

#46. There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures ... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.

Anders Petersen