Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Stop and go: always on some journey. My bounty is a photograph or two. — Sylvia Plachy Copy Share Image
Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game.… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on… — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it… — John Gutmann Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph. — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph. — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
