“Photos hold history frozen. Great photographers bring it to life.” — Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer Copy Share Image
Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation. — Marc Riboud 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
If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -… — Demian Bichir Copy Share Image
“My studio team and I approached the creation of this series with enthusiasm, wit, sincerity and sometimes more than a dash of… — Waswo X Waswo Copy Share Image
I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I did what… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer. — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible… — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides… — Natalie Coughlin Copy Share Image
