I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.) — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something.… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless — Raghu Rai Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons. — Nikolay Semyonov Copy Share Image
I can't talk about my style. It us kind of difficult for me. I don't like styles. I only like taking photos… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does. — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and… — Winona Ryder 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
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
