The photographer hopes, in brief, to discover a tension so exact that it is peace. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer,… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer. — Bill Eppridge Copy Share Image
“From a good photo, sun rays impinge on your eyes; water drips into your hands; the smell of grass comes to your… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not… — Brassai Copy Share Image
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“Life is a photo album. Loaded with some black and white memories, some colorful dreams, some abstract expressionism and some out of… — Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer Copy Share Image
'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
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
After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
Teachers don't work in the summer, and photographers don't shoot in in the middle of the day. — John Loengard Copy Share Image
