My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first goo. Terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off… — George Eastman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer.… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Though Geographic didn't publish that photo in the story that it was done for, "The Life of Charlie Russell," a cowboy artist… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world.… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos,… — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
“Words present us with little pictures, clear and familiar, like those that are hung on the walls of schools to give children… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes,… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“Most users chose to run a “voyeur channel,” which was like being the star of your own twenty-four-hour reality show. Hovering virtual… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being an ethical man, but I don't try to teach ethics. I have no message. I know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the… — Taylor Steele Copy Share Image
Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't… — Yung Lean Copy Share Image
There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
![“I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck... So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.” quote by Pedro Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9e8/pedro-meyer-46329_choices_i-always-found-it-rather-pathetic-that-a_2495839.jpg)
