I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter…

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

My relationship to photography growing up was like, the idea of photojournalism or newspapers - it's far less art or marketing. It was more…

— RaMell Ross

I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship…

— Gerard Malanga

My relationship to photography and film is knowledge production, and it's how to engage with the world in a way that approximates the complexity…

— RaMell Ross

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became…

— Nicole Krauss

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

— Andy Grundberg

I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles.…

— Max Pam

Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart…

— Keith Carter

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

— Herb Ritts

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson