I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I thought I'd better check this third plate, which is another date, see if there's an image there in the right place… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the other is a rare picture… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely… — Galen Rowell 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
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
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 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
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
It's good to go and get photographs taken with people who come out and support you. I don't mind that, having a… — Carl Frampton Copy Share Image
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“My family lost most of our old photos. And now? We scan the backgrounds of photos belonging to others just to catch… — Damon Thomas Copy Share Image
Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn’t recognize my own mother when a press photographer had… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity… — Paul Nassif Copy Share Image
Somebody would come in and say, I never take a good picture. I'd say, Why not? You've got two eyes, a nose,… — James Van Der Zee Copy Share Image
It's been a strange [summer]… I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers… Of course, I included myself. — Weegee Copy Share Image
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial… — Hailee Steinfeld Copy Share Image
I'm very old fashioned. I still believe in the image and the pictorial quality of the image. It seems that I'm still… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
When I became a photographer, I took Mums talent for granted. She would take pictures out the car window and then they… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
Boy, can I take a photo? Girl, why? Boy, just wanted to show my children how their mom looked when she was… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth.… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
It's not worth getting too excited about thinking about the larger picture. The larger picture doesn't come into focus for an awfully… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
“It's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
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