Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares,… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
“The sight of this woman infringing on the privacy of others so aggressively and casually sent revulsion through my entire being. What… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
Only about one per cent of my paintings show family members. Do they help me deal with problems? It's likely that these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
[When] I am taking a photograph, I am conscious that I am constructing images rather than taking snapshots. Since I do not… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
I'm completely in control of creating my photographs, and I'm not always in complete control of creating a character. It's more of… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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