It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Nowadays, photographers start out with ideas, and their photos become the expression of an idea. To my way of thinking, a photo… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
The modern and futuristic camera that I've ever know is EYE . With high-definition, Night-vision, and also non-battery needed — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Photoshop your life. Touch up the edges, adjust the tones, blur out the background, focus on yourself, and crop people out! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them...… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
“They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a million pictures. A billion. As many as… — Richard Tillotson Copy Share Image
“Where we walked around, you took photos of your favorite things in Daydream. Like a little reminder that it’s not all bad,”… — A.M. Rose Copy Share Image
Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I like to move as much as possible and look at reflections, weird angles, subjects from airplanes and cranes. I feel sorry… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living,… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information. — Raghu Rai Copy Share Image
I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context. — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room… — Henry Holmes Smith Copy Share Image
The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing,… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no… — William Dobell Copy Share Image
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It's… — Yolandi Visser Copy Share Image
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
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