Photographs are so strange; they are always in the present…

I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again.

— W. G. Sebald

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

— Martin Parr

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

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

— Michael Heizer

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

— William Eggleston

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Robert Adams

The beauty of photographs are that they never change…even if the people in them do...

— Ritu Ghatourey

Few Americans have ever met their Congresspeople. They don't see them at the grocery store; they don't meet them at the bowling alley. They're…

— Ben Shapiro

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

— Frederick Sommer

“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of humour. Is…

— Waswo X Waswo

What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found'…

— Claire Cameron

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

— Joel Sternfeld

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