In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“Where they are setting up the market, it used to be a place for torture,” Julien remarked, indicating the place in front… — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves,… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda;… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer,… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or… — Nick Woodman Copy Share Image
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848) — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often do not… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and… — Aaron Ruell Copy Share Image
With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots,… — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
