I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when…

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But…

— Josef Koudelka

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

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 little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of…

— Diane Arbus

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

— Edward Weston

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you…' I…

— Josef Koudelka

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

— Josef Koudelka

For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many…

— Josef Koudelka

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

— Josef Koudelka

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things.…

— Josef Koudelka

I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got…

— Rob Brown

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and…

— Harland Williams

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and…

— Aldous Harding