“I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.” — Zdzisław Beksiński Copy Share Image
Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I think, if my butt's not too big for them to be photographing it, then it shouldn't be too big for me. — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice. — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing. — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to… — George Rodger Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I… — Francesco Carrozzini Copy Share Image
There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home -… — Katy Grannan Copy Share Image
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive. — Bill Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Writing and photographing is not about copying reality and reproducing it perfectly. It's about showing it to others as you see it… — Katja Michael Copy Share Image
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird. — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to… — Larry Towell Copy Share Image
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement,… — August Sander Copy Share Image
At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists.… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of… — Erik Madigan Heck Copy Share Image
If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
While I have been photographing for over 48 years now, there is so little time for me to be actually photographing that… — Walter Paul Bebirian Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the… — James Balog Copy Share Image
My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down… — Larry Towell Copy Share Image
I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
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