Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will; but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beautiful it is, but i’ll try.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura,… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world.… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel. — Weegee Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
