Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life. — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death,… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Particularly now with social media, you only need to turn round and someone will have a camera in your face and occasionally… — John Virgo Copy Share Image
It's hard to put yourself in front of a camera, in front of the world, when you don't feel like you look… — Landau Eugene Murphy Jr Copy Share Image
“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
... I began showing the black border of the negative as part of the image, something I'd never done before. I began… — James Welling Copy Share Image
Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“On Photography (Sontag, Susan) - Your Highlight on page 34 | location 419-420 | Added on Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:35:09 “and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge… — Georges Didi-Huberman Copy Share Image
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Note 4. For these and other reasons the cat is also very hard to photograph. The best photographs are instantaneous, as the… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home -… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Part of my job is getting dressed up and having my picture taken and the best way of dealing with that is… — Jessica Barden Copy Share Image
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
Stylistically, in improv, I don't think you can have as many camera tricks; I think you're kind of shooting more like a… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer. — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
I'm involved with this exhibition, which is a collection of Nobby Clarke's photos of the opening night of my own art exhibition. — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
A picture doesn't clearly define a person's true character,it only tells the person's feelings through facial expressions — Jummie Copy Share Image
I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The runner stopped dead, lost his balance, froze in one of those violent attitudes in which the photographers petrify living reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me. — Gregg Wallace Copy Share Image
To live, to experience the world, to communicate with a camera, all these are interrelated and cannot be separated from everyday live. — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image