I always wanted to be a photographer. While I was at school, I got a lab-monkey holiday job in the darkrooms at… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
My favorite thing to do is just sit outside on the stoop and talk with all my neighbors. I can go out… — Margo Martindale Copy Share Image
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do… — Massimo Vitali Copy Share Image
I got a Leica film camera and just started wandering the streets. What really touched my heart were those unexpected and unplanned… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of… — Minor White Copy Share Image
People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
The portrait of a person is one of the most difficult things to do. It means you must almost bring the presence… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This… — Michael Almereyda Copy Share Image
...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
He Self Portraits tend to be a reflection of our Heavenly Father and if you look deep into the eyes of these… — Christy Povolish Copy Share Image
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when someones taking a picture of your car and you walk up like heeeeyyyyyyy...And then no one knows how… — Kylie Jenner Copy Share Image
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth,… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition. — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant.… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
A photograph to me is always a reminder of how the person was on a certain day in that certain light fixed.… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me. — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. — Weegee Copy Share Image
I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of… — Michael Yamashita Copy Share Image
With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken,… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
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