My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes 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
Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort… — David Gandy Copy Share Image
I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world,… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do.… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some people’s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design,… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years… — Carl Mydans Copy Share Image
The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey 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
Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion… — Peter Beard Copy Share Image
These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or… — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
Look, Matisse I ain't. You know how they have on the invitations, a reception for the artist will be held at... And… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
Natural talent means to have the ability to transform, to evolve, to play and role-play with the photographer and the stylist. And… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
My mother was a famous photographer for actresses, including Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, and so many. I remember I went to school… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
I think not being a professional photographer was actually a blessing, because it allowed me to shoot things professional photographers wouldn't shoot,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
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