A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture.… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. It led to… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at… — Laura McPhee Copy Share Image
The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
It also makes me worry about photos of me that exist that I might not even know about. How do I appear… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our… — Maggie Steber Copy Share Image
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
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
