... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced… — Walker Evans 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 picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I've got to get the ultimate in composition today. or I've got to get the ultimate in light, I'll stay here until… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
When you understand how to do that dance, when the photographer says, 'Hold it, do it,' and you know you're getting it… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a… — Jack Osbourne Copy Share Image
I believe that we photographers don't benefit very much with answers from other photographers. What is more beneficial is to ask questions… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting… — William Klein Copy Share Image
