Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I know that on my own sites, a picture of me with my mom or me with my dog does well, but… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Sometimes love is like photography. You can't have the light without the dark, pain without happiness, and tears without the laughing after. — Amanda Day Copy Share Image
[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation. — Allan Dwan Copy Share Image
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
I am an avid lover of taking photographs of the night sky. Whenever I can, I get myself off to Canada or… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
My paintings have an ongoing dialogue with photography. There are many painters who would say the same, I'm sure. The difference is… — James Nares Copy Share Image
... despite the limitations and problems inherent to photographic representation (and especially the representation of politics), it remains for me the most… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
A friend of mine kept saying, 'You tell all these stories about John, and when you do, you say, 'Wait a minute,… — May Pang Copy Share Image
“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
Yeah, I'm doing some stuff behind the camera. Producing and directing. I feel like my face has been on TV enough in… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
“It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiast, but it's the truth nevertheless — pictures tell any story more effectively than words.” — William Moulton Marston Copy Share Image
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a… — Ezra Stoller Copy Share Image
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
“With my wedding photography business, I want repeat customers. So hooray for divorce! That’s why I take lots of pictures—of cheating spouses.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express. — Danae Elon Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we… — Mattias Klum Copy Share Image
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919) — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals… — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel… — Nina Menkes Copy Share Image
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
“It was hard to see where he was going, and he was careful not to damage the camera, so expensive that his… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide… — Gabriel Figueroa Copy Share Image
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