I like photographing women who appear to know something of…

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme…

— Helmut Newton

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

— Horst P. Horst

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing…

— Robert Smithson

I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white…

— Helmut Newton

If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture:…

— Justine Kurland

Whatever pictures are put into the world, the balance needs to be readdressed, it needs to be observed. That's why I am also really…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

— Imogen Cunningham

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the…

— Richard Avedon

Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the very process…

— Michael Kenna

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding…

— Richard Avedon

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the…

— Nan Goldin

I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that never existed,…

— Tim Walker

Photographing a cake can be art.

— Irving Penn