A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer. — Steve Coleman Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is… — James Welling Copy Share Image
The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
“Some individuals came right out and accused me of being a Neo-Orientalist (in a pejorative Edward Said sense of the term). So… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and… — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image