For me, the world is a stage, and we are all playing the character we have chosen to play on that stage.… — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days.… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
It's important that we regularly reconsider, revise, and expand our practices, as our capabilities and needs evolve, both to strengthen our understanding… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
In some areas, [Getty Images has] more images than the rest of the market put together. But libraries are being built up… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer… — Spencer Tunick Copy Share Image
I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much… — Chanel Iman Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming… — Julia Margaret Cameron Copy Share Image
Whether you are Minor White or Robert Frank, almost every photograph starts with an act of pure description - a window. But… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful,… — Betty White Copy Share Image
When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others. Photography is still a very new medium and… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
[Photography] underlines the photographer. That's the Barthesian this has been. Well, this has been for the photographer as well. The photographer is… — James Welling Copy Share Image
It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Work incessantly, cultivate discrimination, gather freedom from your own hard-earned results. Disregard successes but go back for help in an immediate problem.… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl… — Christophe Lemaitre Copy Share Image
There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
In a way, it's like the photographer always has his vision of me. The pictures that I'm known for are not really… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence,… — Robert Mapplethorpe 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
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
The photographer must be absorbent, like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment...His technique should be like an… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
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