If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely.… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
Things are very different now because a lot of those little clubs don't exist. In Soho for instance, where nearly half my… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose.… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image