My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to…

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

— Berenice Abbott

I did it once, and National Geographic recruited me. I did it primarily out of curiosity. A lot of legendary photographers had worked on…

— Sam Abell

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

— Jerry Saltz

“Put that thing down, girl. Don't you know it steals part of your soul, that little mechanical masterpiece you hold so frivolously? Don't you…

— Shannon Noelle Long

Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally…

— Keith Lazelle

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

— Alexey Brodovitch

Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

— Edouard Boubat

I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who…

— Peter van Agtmael

I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my beauty and…

— Kelly Osbourne

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's…

— Robert Doisneau

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado