I think the beauty of images is that they are by definition fetishes and every image (banal or not) as a fetish… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
“They’re powerful, emotional photographs, the kind of expressive, one-in-a-million shots any photographer is lucky to get, like the one of me reaching… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“whichever was appropriate. Up and down, she smiled for the reporters, turned to the right, turned to the left. Smiling, looking directly… — Elizabeth Lennox Copy Share Image
I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised… — Eddie Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going… — Brooklyn Beckham Copy Share Image
You can't teach people photography, they've got to learn how to do it the best way possible for them. They can learn… — Cecil Beaton Copy Share Image
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively,… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
If I had to give advice to other photographers, I would first suggest quickly getting over the camera equipment questions. In my… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images,… — Alan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
With photography, everything is in the eye and these days I feel young photographers are missing the point a bit. People always… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I started taking pictures when I was around 10, so I have been inadvertently been training my eye for it for years.… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The photograph as an objective representation of reality simply does not exist. The photograph does not explain to you what is going… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who think celebrities shouldn't complain, that the photography is just a price to pay for having… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too… — Rankin Copy Share Image
A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your… — Sam Haskins Copy Share Image
Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization.… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
If my pictures are about anything at all, I think it's about trying to make a connection in the world. I see… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
It's this weird binary where I'm getting media images and narratives thrown at me all the time through something I hold in… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
“He walked back into the living room, looking again at the illuminated photo of the man with the brown beard and long… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I try and keep my pictures as natural as possible and try not to use too many filters, because now, it is… — Dianne Buswell Copy Share Image
The most embarassing is when friends ask you to meet up with them and you have to tell them "Sorry I can't… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly,… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how… — Scott Hicks Copy Share Image
“It was to be called Polasound, and the idea was truly eccentric: to attach an audio caption to each Polaroid integral picture.… — Christopher Bonanos Copy Share Image
I was shooting lots of large format portraits then but I've since changed to digital, where you have so much more control.… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
“Known as “Leni,” Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902. During the Third Reich she was known throughout Germany… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
![“His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'” quote by Richard Gere](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/186/richard-gere-3534_clarity_his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-has-told-me_1607458.jpg)
![“[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How…” quote by Walter Benjamin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b0b/walter-benjamin-1723_beautiful_photography-has-become-more-and-more-sub_3101466.jpg)
