At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find… — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Always wait for the trigger. The trigger is the final part of the puzzle, the reason you want to shoot. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating… — David Filo Copy Share Image
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
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