I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
My photographs are not really about photography. They are about editing. I use photography but they are all taken from the TV… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Listen Wanderlei, I will do a home invasion on you. I will cut the power to your house and the next thing… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“The instant before something comes into focus is more exciting than any sharp certainty. Photography, child, is about the passing of time.… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I… — Grace Coddington Copy Share Image
We've had 20 years of mass murders throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don't want… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or… — Hannah Hoch Copy Share Image
If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and… — Michael Langford 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
Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
Today's photographers think differently. Many can't see real light anymore. They think only in terms of strobe - sure, it all looks… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I find myself using music metaphors all the time, but this is too perfect, I feel like. Digital downloading is like photographs… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
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