“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
“Every civilized man or woman has, I suppose, some picture of himself or herself, and is annoyed when anything happens that seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Even if the Photo Agency is only 10 minutes away from me, on the way there was very dump weather and cold… — Photo Agency Copy Share Image
Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
“Look at the people in the very old photographs! They are gone forever but they still can give us messages with their… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
[My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
Press information is serious information, but press information is also manipulated by people who want you to think that this and that… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close,… — Anja Niedringhaus Copy Share Image
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example;… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
“That's about when people realized that this wasn't some kind of show, an optical illusion or something to stand around and point… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
The best photographers are super nice people and that its not a coincidence. Great photographers genuinely like people, and people can feel… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
It's entirely ridiculous and hopeless to try to compete with somebody who made such a huge contribution to photography... I knew when… — Amy Arbus Copy Share Image
“Most photographers have some kind of verbal patter going on when they shoot: "Great. Turn to me. Big smile. Less shark eyes.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“With the willingness of Time-Life and a team of historians, forensic anthropologists, photographic experts, and cutting edge technology, the means are at… — Lawrence Verria Copy Share Image
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world,… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
“Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I… — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
My relationship to images is always in flux... Photos I think are great can turn out to be not so interesting five… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
“Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way.… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
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