... photography is an imprint or transfer off the real; it is a photochemically processed trace causally connected to the thing in… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful,… — Andre Kertesz 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
Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed, — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording… — Julia Margaret Cameron 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
I'd bought a lot of really challenging, cutting-edge Joel-Peter Witkin photographs very early on. There were severed heads and amputated feet and… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
What is important to my work is the individual picture. I photograph stories on assignment, and of course they have to be… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image