[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Here is, again, my best friend Destiny. The one who hates cameras with all her life. The one who doesn't believe in… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
“That's because they're of the past. All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.” — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable. — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world,… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“If you’ve actually seen a ghost—and I assure you that you probably have, within the last month—it would have just looked like… — David Wong Copy Share Image
These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all… — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and… — Lorde Copy Share Image
In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken. — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If your image is going out to people, you have a duty to make it the best it can be. That's why… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing. — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life. — Erin Heatherton Copy Share Image
Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a… — Roy Stryker Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — Henri Cartier-Bresson 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
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
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
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
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