The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. — Minor White Copy Share Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph. — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
“there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There's this crazy thinking that style guarantees truth. You go out with a hand-held camera, use available light, and somehow the truth… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the… — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
“I did not understand, taking those pictures, that history must be collected while the subject exists. If not, what goes unrecorded can… — Susanna Daniel Copy Share Image
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring. — Norman Parkinson Copy Share Image
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
In a way, if and individual assumes the risk of placing himself in the middle of a war to communicate to the… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction… — Sebastiao Salgado 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
I like getting my ideas from the things of now. I am very conscious of the moment, of images that belong to… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The best pictures are always taken when you don't know your being pictured. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal. — Horst P. Horst Copy Share Image
Close your eyes and let the world paint a thousand pictures. One good girl is worth a thousand bitches. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a camera. You see the world from a different lens.” — Robert Ahanes Copy Share Image
“It isn't the camera that takes great shots, it is the photographer, don't forget this. I” — Eric Dahlin Copy Share Image
Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision. — Raghu Rai Copy Share Image
The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part. — Everett McGill Copy Share Image
I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it. — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
