You sort of have to be always aware, even when you're not thinking of shooting. That's when the best stuff happens. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“A camera is just a medium to capture what you have in your vision, and vision is something that cannot be bought.” — Neeraj Agnihotri 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
Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school.… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images. — Erin Siegal McIntyre Copy Share Image
People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am basically an… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“I have learned that the camera is, as is often said, a powerful weapon. And the wielder of that weapon can be… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street,… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were. — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
It is the photographer's decision at the two levels of seeing the picture - when it is shot and when it is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I'm aware of how lucky I am. Being able to make pretty good money, and get to do a lot of fun… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have… — Anja Niedringhaus Copy Share Image
I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
