I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me…

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

— Todd Hido

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

— Ted Grant

I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more…

— Deborah Turbeville

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting,…

— Joanna Lumley

“Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal.…

— Robert Goddard

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

— Phyllis Diller

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

— David LaChapelle

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A…

— Richard Avedon

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

— Helmut Newton

I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're trying to…

— Ruth Jones

I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when…

— Thomas Ruff

There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

— Jock Sturges

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen