The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. — Dennis Oppenheim Copy Share Image
The photo shoots were not easy. I cried and refused to do anything that would shame my mother and father. — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture… — Joanna Page Copy Share Image
Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
If I were talking to someone, I'd look at their eyes, not at the blemish on the side of their face. But… — Scott Kelby Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
When I was in the 12th standard itself, I decided to join the Adyar Film Institute and study photography. I specifically chose… — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
I don't know whether we think in moving images or whether we think in still images. I have a suspicion that on… — Jon Snow Copy Share Image
“The photographer was installed in the back of an inconspicurous dry-goods store in the poorer neighbourhood of Warsaw. He seemed to know… — Jan Karski Copy Share Image
Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera. — Jonathan Ke Quan Copy Share Image
They say never judge a book by its cover but they also said a picture is worth a thousand words. — Jaz Copy Share Image
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood. — Raquel Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image