The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how… — Dorothea Lange 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
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
A photograph is what it appears to be. Already far from 'reality' because of its silence, lack of movement, two-dimensional ity and… — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment. — Pedro Meyer 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
A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You are the accumulations of your experiences at any given point. And when you express something those things come out. The thing… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time,… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
