To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer” — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go?… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists)… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child.… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Because I take very seriously the idea that I can make an impact in the world, I hold back my voice so… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs… — Minor White Copy Share Image
When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
