All photographers have to do, is find and catch the story-telling moment. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that… — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. — Rineke Dijkstra 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
All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
I really enjoy behind the camera stuff and I'm a frustrated photographer myself and just love the camera. I love that side… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,… — Betty White Copy Share Image
When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
On the same Australian trip, I brought back a pair [of Ugg] for my then boyfriend who was a photographer. He wore… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image