I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
...life is like a camera...FOCUS in what's important...CAPTURE the good times...DEVELOP from the negatives...and if things don't work TAKE ANOTHER SHOT... — Marj Copy Share Image
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I can tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment. A moment that is… — Antony Armstrong-Jones Copy Share Image
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“We carried bottled water and day packs and cameras, except for Fred, who said he didn’t believe in taking photographs; he planned… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
All I want in life is to pet my dog and cat. After that, all I want to do is post photos… — Cazzie David Copy Share Image
Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that.… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the… — Gordon Matta-Clark Copy Share Image
I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
I can't remember a picture that has expressed black attitudes and personal relationships as vividly as we've done in 'Cadence.' — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
“A great photographer show off his talent & awards on facebook. An amateur photographer show off his work and skill on facebook.… — Junior Ming Copy Share Image
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For… — Estella Warren Copy Share Image
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
When I travel, sometimes I feel like a street blogger. I'll take pictures of people all over who are wearing cool things. — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress… — Lee Thompson Young Copy Share Image
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you… — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that… — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image