The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
Photographs should celebrate the contingent, the spontaneous, the incomplete, the fortuitous. Direct, unblinking vision should be coupled with deliberate indifference as to… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling… — Todd Hido Copy Share Image
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
I never know in advance what I will photograph,...I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another.… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people… — Mary Mattingly Copy Share Image
As much as I'm not a journalist, I use journalism. And when you photograph a relationship, it's quite wonderful to let something… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
Subject matter comes to you, you don't go to it... Although I shoot extemporaneously a lot of the time, I prefer to… — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
