Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on… — Tibor Kalman Copy Share Image
Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying 'Hi,' shaking a hand,… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn't shoot,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“I looked at the images hanging on the walls, wanting to find those things in her pictures. My favorite was directly across… — Leesa Freeman Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I am consistently impressed by reddit. I'd say on a near weekly basis, by little things. Whether it's - I absolutely love… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's most important to, rather than just do what everybody else is doing, like tons of selfies, find out what… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
...life is like a camera...FOCUS in what's important...CAPTURE the good times...DEVELOP from the negatives...and if things don't work TAKE ANOTHER SHOT... — Marj Copy Share Image
I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I can tell you what I personally use a camera for. Basically, it is to record a moment. A moment that is… — Antony Armstrong-Jones Copy Share Image
If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the… — Gordon Matta-Clark Copy Share Image
Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I do not object to retouching, dodging or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.” — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
“Nothing is going on." "Hey, you're the one who tried to knock a security camera off the side of a building. That's… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who… — Tee Corinne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the perfect picture. That's the challenge of photography. I was always striving for perfection, even though… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Blow the dust off the picture, take the picture out if the frame rusts, but don't forget were friends forever :) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image