People think photography is about photographing. To me…

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

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

— Richard Misrach

Photographing a cake can be art.

— Irving Penn

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

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

— Lewis Baltz

It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take…

— Michael Kenna

I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good…

— Jamel Shabazz

I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally…

— Susan Meiselas

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

— Annie Leibovitz

I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within…

— Stan Brakhage

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art…

— Ansel Adams

With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I…

— Walker Evans

None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is…

— Michael Langford