I begin by not photographing.

Photographing a cake can be art.

— Irving Penn

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

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 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 was studying to be a dental hygienist and working as a dental assistant. I met a photographer and decided to put my job…

— Nikki Ziering

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every…

— Stephen Shore

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

— Douglas Kirkland

It's hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I'm sure a lot of people made mistakes - they just were not…

— Ellen DeGeneres

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

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— Edward Weston