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
Sometimes as you work, you find that you are learning things about your own perceptions and motivations that are way below you… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
If you can imagine photography in the guise of a woman and you’d ask her what she thought of Stieglitz, she’d say:… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band.… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures… — Abbas Kiarostami 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
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done?… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image