There are times that I have to say no to a photograph, like at 8:30 A.M. when I'm out to buy bread… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Even when someone introduced the women as someone's daughter or wife, they maintained a distance. With the advent of selfies, people now… — K. J. Yesudas Copy Share Image
With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
“a picture wasn’t worth anything if it didn’t produce a reaction, that it takes talent to capture feeling with an image.” — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make… — Minor White Copy Share Image
...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Don't squander beautiful moments by always trying to snap the perfect picture or record the event on film. Sometimes it's better to… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
There have been times where I have definitely felt like I was a john. As a pin-up photographer for ten years, when… — Annie Sprinkle Copy Share Image
For me the most important thing to do in a selfie is to have an opinion and to say something with the… — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery.… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about photographic authorship. Whether an astronaut who doesn't even have a viewfinder makes an image, a robotic camera,… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“The age of the world picture is not concerned with a visual picturing, with mimesis, but rather with a modelling or framing… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
“Not just a recipe book, but a genuine overview of Tuscany's culinary history and culture, a journey in images through photographs taken… — Tuscookany Copy Share Image
When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying… — Sal Mineo Copy Share Image
“Holy fuck—would somebody please tell him why a massive photo of a penis was sitting front and center in the courtroom?” — Julie James Copy Share Image
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I… — Iskra Lawrence Copy Share Image
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes. — Judy Dater Copy Share Image
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image