What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. (meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he,… — Brassai Copy Share Image
“Some people in Nigeria photographed us together and are threatening to publish the pictures, but that’s not news to anyone.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I wondered if anyone ever thought as they smiled for a photograph that someday a particular instant caught on film would be… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its… — Alan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless. — John Berger Copy Share Image
What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
“As to “Aesthetic Considerations,” Ansel counseled, “A photograph that is merely a superficial record of the subject fails as an aesthetic expression… — Mary Street Alinder Copy Share Image
If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture...… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what… — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
“Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. A curlicued swing set in a… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not… — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The eye is made to see and not to think… A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs. — Jan Dibbets Copy Share Image
The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
To make things just that much more interesting, the changes can't be captured on camera, so anyone who doesn't see them firsthand… — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on… — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
“when the photo looks deep into your spirit and tells you a thousand stories… stories from your past even before you existed…… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
The photographers are always around. Wherever I go, they start clicking incessantly. I am always like, 'At least give me a heads-up,… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you… — Seungri Copy Share Image
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to… — Christa B. Allen Copy Share Image
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
“I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us.… — Alan Moore Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen Book Copy Share Image
Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Until you get paid for your photo shoots please dont go around saying you're a 'model' you simply had your picture taken — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
For the first time in the history of photography, we can study the real-time production of snapshot making - globally! (On Flickr… — Joachim Schmid Copy Share Image
We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Turns out the problem is the picture. The problem isn't the 16,000 murders each year [...]. That's not the problem. The photo… — Teodoro Petkoff Copy Share Image
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. — Anonymous Copy Share Image