Taking Pictures Quotes

Taking Pictures Quote of the day

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

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.

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.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

I love taking pictures of food.

Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.

They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse.

When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death comes, people go in and out in costume - and it's like a play.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

My fans are called 'Mayniacs'. They enjoy screaming and chasing me and taking pictures.

Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

People were like, 'Oh, there are going to be people running up to you taking pictures' and I thought it was going to be a bunch of little kids. But it's grown-ups! And that's, like, creepy.

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

I'm taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

When I get off a flight, I'm not trying to sit there and let them take pictures of me. I'm tired. I'm scratching my eyes. I just don't like taking pictures in general.

She's taking pictures! Maryse, put it on Twitter!

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

There is a lot of years in my 20s that acting was really on the back burner not even saying I was traveling and writing, taking pictures and just kind of living and figuring out what I wanted to do.

I'm not good at taking pictures. I can't give a good face. I crack up.

When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

With the selfies, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph.