A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Start looking at everything around you as a photo story, then decide how you could best tell that story - in one… — Dan Eitreim Copy Share Image
Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
...my way of photographing is my way of life. I photograph from my experience, my way of seeing things... — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or… — Alex Prager Copy Share Image
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite… — William Klein Copy Share Image
The worst thing is when people try and take pictures surreptitiously. I always say, 'Look, you can ask me for a photograph.… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything. — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
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