I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me. — William Klein Copy Share Image
It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much. — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Authentic discovery, when captured on camera, I think, is tremendous acting. — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I… — Francis Alys Copy Share Image
Does getting closer to the subject make the photograph more intimate? I'm sure it takes more than that. What comes next? The… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy… — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department. — Banksy Copy Share Image
The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a… — Laura Gilpin Copy Share Image
It's all the same. It's the same face. We always look for an idea, for the same face, for the same position.… — Malick Sidibe Copy Share Image
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take… — Nikki S. Lee Copy Share Image
Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Where you point the camera is the question and the picture you get is the answer to decipher. — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
A TV camera goes right through your soul. If you're a bad person, people pick that up. — Roy Clark Copy Share Image
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained. — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did. — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. — Ida Lupino Copy Share Image
I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level. — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say. — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
