Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph ~~ Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
When I started, art photography, like that of Andreas Gursky, and Thomas Struth, didn't exist. — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold!” — Mark Denman Copy Share Image
“There is a danger in letting a camera make all its preprogrammed decisions for you:” — Robert Hirsch Copy Share Image
The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome! — Camren Bicondova Copy Share Image
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images. — Tatyana Ali Copy Share Image
I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“I should take a photo.” “No. Just remember it, and us in it.” He swallowed. She smiled. Here was rightness of place… — Ali Shaw Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
“I wanted to evaluate my own escape from the crowds in 5 different stages so that I could clarify my thoughts and… — Korel Eraybar Copy Share Image
The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not.… — Danny Lyon Copy Share Image
... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“So it was with the various eccentrics she discovered in the next years. Some she went home with, some she didn't; some… — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. It led to… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Looking at a photograph and wishing you could re-live that moment over and over again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out. — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
“Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it. — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love. — Lawrence Blume Copy Share Image
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. — Fred Picker Copy Share Image
I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
In life, the best moments are those that your camera always failed to capture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
