You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I think there is a period of esthetic discovery that happens to a man and he can do all sorts of things… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.) — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to… — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer,… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into… — Rick Astley Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer,… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain. — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
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