It is a serious job being a portrait photographer, which is how I saw myself. — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. — Minor White Copy Share Image
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I've done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world.They made me America's Number… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and… — Garth Kravits Copy Share Image
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I… — Lotte Jacobi Copy Share Image
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling… — Daido Moriyama Copy Share Image
When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact"… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer… — Scott Kelby Copy Share Image
Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode… — Ralph Gibson 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
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I seek what lies beneath surface beauty. What interests me are intimate human complexities - the darkness as well as the light.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image