When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
You know, I must really work hard. I'm in the last stage of my artistic life. But I'm so busy that I… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the… — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting… — William Klein Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
“Being a photographer isn’t a choice but a discovery. One day, you awaken to the pull of light and shadow, the lens… — Craig Varjabedian Copy Share Image
Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images… — George H. Harrison Copy Share Image
We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Men die, heroically or fruitlessly, but man carries on. In Israel it is the same: the farmer must till the fields, the… — Leonard Freed Copy Share Image
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
I have a really hard time stepping out of a limousine and confronting a sh*tload of photographers who are all screaming at… — Julia Ormond Copy Share Image
If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography.… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The photographs that excite me are photographs that say something in a new manner; not for the sake of being different but… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity.… — Ali MacGraw Copy Share Image
When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I was in middle school at a bat mitzvah, and a fashion photographer, Suzy Gorman, came up to me and asked me… — Devon Windsor Copy Share Image
New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World… — David Salle Copy Share Image
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