That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination. — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
One day, I'll be photographing Kate Moss in Paris, then I'll be on Stephanie Seymour's ranch with her hundred horses wondering what… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
“There are times when one is with their camera that beautiful and magical things will come into view. Do not let them… — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
I think that I can speak in front of the camera. I think my fighting ability can speak for itself as well. — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs:… — William Klein Copy Share Image
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The Baudelaires were sad to see a framed photograph of a kind-looking man with a handful of crackers in one hand and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see. — Grimes Copy Share Image
A real picture can be altered to something fake leave it up to people. — Martin Stubbs Copy Share Image
Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does. — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
A lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling? — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Who said a picture is worth a 1000 words ??!! ... when I looked at your picture I was even speechless!! — Ali Bassam Copy Share Image
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
