I can’t defend this position, but I think I take…

I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more…

— Ralph Gibson

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects…

— Dennis Hopper

I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.

— Martin Schoeller

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

— Martin Parr

Photographs are things that should be pinned on a wall, and when you stop liking them - just tear them up!

— Antony Armstrong-Jones

I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I don't use…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just…

— Harmony Korine

Of course, all my work is photographed and I also take quite a lot of photographs of work in production.

— Patricia Piccinini

“Sometimes I think you take photographs instead of seeing, you forget to look in your eagerness to grasp what is seen, to capture it…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…

— Duane Michals

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in…

— Jerry Uelsmann

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much…

— Richard Avedon

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

— W. G. Sebald