I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to.… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
Through a portrait, we can potentially see everything — the history and depth of a person's life, as well as evidence of… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture’s center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Can you see the deaths, divorces, job losses or changes, disappointments, surprises, and successes on people's faces? Have they been happy, sad,… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
“Yes. Can you print these pictures and make sure the others have copies? Particularly Barry. He’s Locator in Chief on this one.”… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
I've got loads of photographs of me at home with two orbs that visit me. The two that I have are about… — Noel Edmonds Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or… — Nick Woodman Copy Share Image
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today… — Dziga Vertov Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
War is the easiest photography in the business. Just get close, be lucky, know how your camera works. There are subjects everywhere.… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
Every time my cameras go out on a movie, we learn something new and then we take what we learn and we… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it,… — Ken Griffey Jr Copy Share Image
No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination.… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
Sixty-five days principle photography, five-day weeks, which is the only way I'll work. With my cinematographer Russell Boyd, we take as much… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
When I got the deal to do 'J. Edgar,' which was really the brainchild of Brian Grazer, 'Milk' hadn't come out yet.… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“For me, the story about the pictures is about almost losing myself, and coming back, and what it means to be deeply… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
“I see it all through the lens of my camera—the flurry of movement, the venue staff in black T-shirts, giving orders into… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn… — Ed Kashi Copy Share Image
For example, you now look at pictures from 1968, they are hugely misleading in terms of standing in as an absolute image… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
We wonder why black and white pictures capture soul. I think it's cause without color, we aren't drawn to the makup, or… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he… — Kylie Bax Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
Things changed a little when I started taking photographs for magazines. I was afraid in the beginning. I thought, "Oh I can't… — Walter Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
