Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I know my idea of beauty isn't what most people's is, and the fact that I'm getting the opportunity to show my… — Kelly Osbourne Copy Share Image
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
Democrats are fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at… — Laura McPhee Copy Share Image
“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their… — Moby Copy Share Image
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy,… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
André Kertész has two qualities that are essential for a great photographer: an insatiable curiosity about the world, about people, and about… — Brassai Copy Share Image
I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Color really doesn't have interaction if it's full of colors. It's the interaction or relationship among or between colors that makes a… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time,… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s… — Weegee Copy Share Image
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