The best photographs are made by the best people.

“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

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

— Paul Theroux

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate…

— W. Eugene Smith

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this…

— Torbjørn Rødland

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

— Joel Sternfeld

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

— Frederick Sommer

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

— Robert Adams

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

— Susan Sontag

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.

— Michael Heizer

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became…

— Gabriel Orozco

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on…

— Garry Winogrand

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

— Martin Parr

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs…

— Susan Sontag

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner