Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive… — Bill Cunningham Copy Share Image
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves just as musicians… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my… — Cris Mazza 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
One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of… — Minor White 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
My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before. — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image