I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I…

I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.

— Garry Winogrand

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk…

— Garry Winogrand

When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

I walk in the park every day, and when people come and ask for a photograph, I say, "Oh, my God!" It means they…

— Carolina Herrera

The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph. You will…

— Bill Bailey

I'm struck these days by how often people come up to me and ask to take a photograph instead of shaking hands, meeting one's…

— Anna Wintour

When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying…

— Amy Arbus

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but…

— Keren Ann

“Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“But my dear man, come, be reasonable. Look, this is you, look at this photograph. And here's your file: no convictions, I assure you.…

— Samuel Beckett

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased…

— Zoe Leonard

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.

— Ruth Bernhard

If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next one, or…

— Duane Michals

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you…

— Joel Meyerowitz

When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut…

— Russell James