Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Nowadays everyone has a camera and the Internet means everything is instantly accessible. Unlike some photographers, I don't see this as a… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
“How can we hope, after all, to see a tree or rock or clear north sky if we do not adopt a… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training,… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I always feel safe with a woman photographer. I feel that no matter how they interpret something, they understand all sides of… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
I started photography more or less by accident when I was already 27. I was taken on as an assistant by a… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Each photographer has their own vibe and presence that they bring to their shoots. Steven Meisel is a teacher. He teaches everyone… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby… — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young,… — Jerry Schatzberg Copy Share Image
“You know zat another term for an iconographer would be ‘photographer’? From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—” “‘To prance… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true.… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer,… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
If you look at photographers who say, "I hate digital photography," they all use Photoshop, even if it's to make the sky… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an… — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
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