The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
It's in my nature to want every image of me to be authentic but at the end of the day as a… — Denise Bidot Copy Share Image
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Running backwards down the stairs, holding the camera, trying to focus on what's in front of you is difficult, and you need… — Sam Hargrave Copy Share Image
“You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Five years ago, we came to the realization that the camera can be used for more than capturing memories. We showed it… — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
“Probably the hardest thing in the world for a man is the simple observation and acceptance of what is. Always we warp… — Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Essentially the rule of thirds is this: If you take a photo and place two imaginary horizontal lines across it, dividing the… — Aaron Chase Copy Share Image
Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of someone that you don't have the… — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world.… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as… — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think nobody is looking - and then there's still a picture being taken. There are just some complete idiots who… — Bill Kaulitz Copy Share Image
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
It's not just about looking shocked if the scene demands it. It's about feeling that emotion. You can't lie to the camera,… — Radhika Apte Copy Share Image
I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The gear you can't afford is not the barrier keeping you from success. Gear has very little to do with photography. — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
I have been taking pictures for a long time but not without learning properly. I have learnt it from Himanshuu Sheth. — Waheeda Rehman Copy Share Image
It's plastered in front of us all the time - pictures of other people. It just forces us to compare what we… — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from… — Laura Harrier Copy Share Image
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
People take secret pictures of me... it fries my brain. I'm just a bloke, Just come and talk to me, I'd love… — James Buckley Copy Share Image
I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character. — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
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