I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under… — Antoine D'Agata Copy Share Image
When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime. — Tyler Shields Copy Share Image
There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters. — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I have to say, taking photographs is such an instantaneous act. The recognition and the acting on the recognition, depending on your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. — Ansel Adams 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
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Larry Schwarm's photographs of fire on the prairie are so compelling that I cannot imagine any later photographer trying to do better.… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As my sons went into teenagehood, they started to look like some of the groups of people that I had photographed previously.… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
