If you're really in the process of photographing, you are…

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

— Alex Webb

I was absolutely always aware of how my race and gender affected how people treat me.

— Nia DaCosta

“Death is the only thing in life that you absolutely have to be aware of as it's happening.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm absolutely aware of the great effort Juventus Football Club has made to bring me here.

— Carlos Tevez

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

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