“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages.” — M.R. Mathias Copy Share Image
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. — Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get. — Bruce Gilden Copy Share Image
I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
NatGeo always has great photographs and photographers. There's always something interesting to look at. — B-Real Copy Share Image
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved. — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color.” — Stanley Karnow Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“At the start of the trip, I took shots of the sights. The Colosseum. Belvedere Palace. Mozart Square. But I stopped. They… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'll never forget the moment when I saw a red light go on, on the camera, and that image translated to the… — Susanna White Copy Share Image
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots. — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career. — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Life is like a camera, hold it steady and the picture comes out clear. — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
