Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography—that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to… — Nigel Barker 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
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Normally I do all my own post work. It's not that I do it better than anyone else, I just do it… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school.… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that,… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I… — Yousuf Karsh 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
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
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