No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I still have a photo, taken ... by Eugen Bavcar, a Slovenian photographer -who is blind.” — Jacques Bonnet Copy Share Image
All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing. — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment thats gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel. — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every… — John Coplans Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is… — Weegee Copy Share Image
A lot of the challenge and the reason for the success of those one-shot photographers is that their pictures almost have to… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
It's been a strange [summer]… I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers… Of course, I included myself. — Weegee Copy Share Image
Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
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