I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time. — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
