Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences. — Walter Rosenblum 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
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done. — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after… — Sadakichi Hartmann 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
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
When I revealed the campaign, some lady in the front row, a photographer, asked "is that airbrushed?" So I just lifted my… — Dara Torres Copy Share Image
There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I… — Cat Power 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
Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?' — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about. — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
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