A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. — Greg Gorman Copy Share Image
Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see — Leon Levinstein 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
One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it,… — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality. — Barbara Ess Copy Share Image
When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only… — Minor White Copy Share Image
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
John Lennon brought his wife Cynthia, a nice blonde girl and she was horribly put out of sight and stayed home. I… — Harry Benson Copy Share Image
