It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead! — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all. — W. Eugene Smith 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
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
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
Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you… — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular… — George A Tice Copy Share Image
When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex… — Jessie Tarbox Beals Copy Share Image
As the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted, shifted from what the world looks… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a… — James Welling Copy Share Image
It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the people who started on film still have the ability to see the person in front of them. Whereas… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
