To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is… — John Divola Copy Share Image
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures… — Rankin Copy Share Image
You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I like people for their weaknesses and faults. I get on well with ordinary people. We talk. We start with the weather,… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the… — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
There's also a lot of punch you get from doing an extreme closeup and have it just be that image with nothing… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Many who are making cellphone images are advocates with a stake in the outcome of what they are depicting. In some ways… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“Photography is the play of light, the dance of shadows, the song of exposure, and the story of the moment.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something.… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I… — Natalia Kills Copy Share Image
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Life is like a camera, just focus on whats important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture,… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Many times, we athletes have a camera in front of us and in many cases a lot of people with that same… — Manu Ginobili Copy Share Image
The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
“Photographs are the reflection of untold stories, unseen beauties, unexpressed emotions, and the unheard songs of life.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“You are not your camera nor is your photography your camera. Nobody who matters cares what camera you use.” — Scott Bourne Copy Share Image
I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic".… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“Your eyes are not really windows through which you look out into the world. Your eyes are cameras that send electronic images… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I… — Lotte Jacobi Copy Share Image
When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now… — Todd Walker Copy Share Image
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
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