I was making photographs of the world long before I was a…

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

— Susan Sontag

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

— Ken Rockwell

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from…

— Abelardo Morell

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

— Minor White

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

— Sam Abell

The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but ones that…

— Harry Callahan

There are no photographs while I'm reloading .

— Garry Winogrand

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented…

— Xaviera Simmons

Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

— Fred Picker

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

— Catherine Opie