Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes… — Ryan Hurst Copy Share Image
Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were… — Jeff Mathews Copy Share Image
A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos… — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
I laughed at the whole Cannes Film Festival thing because it didn't feel real. I remember getting off the red-eye when I… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me.… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content.… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with… — Sarah Charlesworth Copy Share Image
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort… — David Gandy Copy Share Image
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world,… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would disappear in an instant? And, Could we really make it live as art? There was an almost moral dimension.” quote by Joel Meyerowitz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/760/joel-meyerowitz-24422_art_the-thought-for-us-street-photographers_2422460.jpg)
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