Quotes about Photography

I love a natural look in pictures.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.

I asked him how he had been able to take such a splendid picture. With a smile he said, "Well, I had only to be very patient and very attentive. It was only after a few hours of compliments that the lily was willing to let me take her picture.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I have an iPhone, and I can text, and I can use the phone, and I can even take pictures with it.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them.

When I moved to New York I started to do a lot of TV commercials. It just kind of naturally evolved from still photography to commercials.