What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed.… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“If you're waiting for a sign from the skies to become a great photographer, the extraordinary images that suddenly appear before you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am.… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
“There are times when one is with their camera that beautiful and magical things will come into view. Do not let them… — Christopher Paul Flateau Copy Share Image
In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art..… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The only things that distinguish the photographer from everybody else are his pictures: they alone are the basis for our special interest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans'… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were… — Jeff Mathews Copy Share Image
One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The thought for us [street photographers] was always: How much could we absorb and embrace of a moment of existence that would… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there's this weird warrior gravitas that comes… — Ryan Hurst Copy Share Image
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
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