I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. — Alberto Korda Copy Share Image
“What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?” — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Nowadays when you're shooting HD people will walk in front of the camera, it can just be rolling all the time -… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done?… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process,… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
I know I should ignore them and not give them a picture but I cant help it. Something just takes over when… — Shia Labeouf Copy Share Image
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“He took twelve pictures that day. Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I never understood why people take pictures of themselves giving the finger. Was the camera mean to you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Morel made particularly effective use of photography. A central part of almost every Congo protest meeting was a slide show, comprising some… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived. — Shakira Copy Share Image
There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it,… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes.… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a director of photography for a while, because I'm fascinated by what they do. You're made to look… — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I've already had our picture in a frame. but you started playing games so I watched it burn with your games. — Tatyana Matias Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
For me, looking at small images somehow recreates the experience of looking through a viewfinder… At this size they're edible. You don't… — Judy Fiskin Copy Share Image
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