When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain… — Lise Sarfati Copy Share Image
“I used to be lost in us. Blurred were the lines that separated us. But now, I see our togetherness in our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently,… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
The photograph is the most perfect picture. It does not change; it is absolute, and therefore autonomous, unconditional, devoid of style. Both… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works… — Christian Rudder Copy Share Image
“Here,” he says, removing my camera from its dry home and handing it to me to turn on. “I want to take… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no narrative now, no “And then,” only a disjointed series of images. A pile of photographs I’ve flipped through so… — Kat Rosenfield Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of… — Erik Madigan Heck Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us 'on pause' in order to document our lives. It is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
“Just consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himself—this is the moment to take a snapshot; when you wait until he… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“This photograph, this swipe of grain, so briefly glimpsed: I could tell it contained extraordinary information. It was black and white. It… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think you take photographs instead of seeing, you forget to look in your eagerness to grasp what is seen, to… — Jens Christian Grøndahl Copy Share Image
If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“I was deep in a dream about photography-walking through a strange city with buildings that stretched so high they disappeared into the… — Katie Alender Copy Share Image
“He had a face made for magazine covers. Could someone say GQ model? That razor sharp jaw and those angular features caught… — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Basically, I thought for a very long time that making music and art projects, that that was just something that I did,… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
My objective always is to stay as close as possible and shoot the pictures as if through the eyes of the infantryman,… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I am actually turned off when I look at an account and don’t see any selfies, because I want to know whom… — James Franco Copy Share Image
![“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features…” quote by Roland Barthes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9f1/roland-barthes-1062_amorous_photography-allows-me-to-accede-to-an-in_1427383.png)
