There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form… — George B. Ward Copy Share Image
The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take… — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer… — Erwin Blumenfeld Copy Share Image
In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
“Kodak made its founder, George Eastman, a rich man, but it also provided middle-class jobs for generations of people and created a… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that.… — Rza Copy Share Image
They say 'A Picture' Is Worth A Thousand Words. But I think they're wrong. When I looked at yours, I was speechless... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Will looked up at Garrison. "Did you get some shots?" Garrison held up a Canon with an impressive lens. "Got 'em, boss.” — Eva Marie Everson Copy Share Image
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture. — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
When I look at pictures I have made, I have forgotten what I saw in front of the camera and respond only… — Minor White Copy Share Image
At what point to people get in their car and think 'I'm going to take a photo of myself for my profile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself… — Graeme Le Saux Copy Share Image
Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the… — Noel Edmonds Copy Share Image
Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do… — Shenaz Treasury 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
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general -… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
