We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes.… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity.… — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many… — Josef Hoflehner Copy Share Image
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or, eh, a writer without worrying about keeping their… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing to me is that magazines would never do this for their writers. They would never hire a writer who… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Copy Share Image
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures… — Rankin Copy Share Image
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I… — Lotte Jacobi Copy Share Image
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
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