I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other… — Piet Zwart Copy Share Image
All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and… — Constantine Manos Copy Share Image
It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with… — Russell James Copy Share Image
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance.… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression… — Anne Edwards Copy Share Image
I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I don't want to carry big things around with me. I'm lazy. The snapshot camera, you just carry it around and take… — Nikki S. Lee Copy Share Image
I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want… — Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Copy Share Image
I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
“I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: certain Communards… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context... Then you step in and read the text and then… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock,… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
It would be so easy to lose the plot now. It's not about achieving something for its own sake, and taking pictures… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat,… — James Wan Copy Share Image
PW spent time with Sigel in a New York recording studio shortly before he went away on his federal gun possession charge.… — Beanie Sigel Copy Share Image
My programme, The Art of Creative Expression, empowers young people with tools to express themselves. We teach photography, art and drama, but… — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Question the images. Take them by the hand and don't let the sweet distancing they offer you vanquish you; do away with… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
