I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos… — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank… — Betty Hutton Copy Share Image
The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds.… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And,… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more,… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue… — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say… — David Hockney Copy Share Image