This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of… — Blaise Aguera y Arcas Copy Share Image
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
People are not used to seeing skiing on water, so I can understand why they think it is fake. That's why we… — Candide Thovex Copy Share Image
Photography is usually viewed as a solitary activity, but the truth of the matter is that people love to shoot together, compare… — Scott Kelby Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Take criticism, smash it into dust, add color, and use it to take breathtaking pictures of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of… — Mathew Gray Gulber Copy Share Image
The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
I have a huge collection of cookery books, like most chefs. do I regularly revisit Michel Roux Snr's 'The Collection,' particularly for… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Jean-Claude was watching me with his still eyes. I took a deep breath through my nose and let it out through my… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think, for a lot of people, the point is to get high engagement and likes on their photos, so I think… — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
“I take a picture, but it's not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It's about the memories… — Kayla Davis Copy Share Image
The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography. — Richard Kalvar Copy Share Image
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for… — Mike Ruiz Copy Share Image
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens. — Feist Copy Share Image
“The moment is altered as soon as I try to capture it, so for me, it’s impossible.” How true, I thought. Moments… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more,… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
“Sameness... the new ‘unique’. So photographers seem to be flocking toward simple, easy to understand ‘solutions’ instead of flocking toward hard work,… — Don Giannatti Copy Share Image
When I'm taking pictures I even forget that I have a camera. When I shoot I forget about everything. Light comes, death… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy,… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography when I was sharing a studio with Walker Evans, and found my own sketching was inadequate. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I HATE the company zoosk. first they steal my photos for their ads & now they are making fraud charges on my… — Hanna Beth Copy Share Image
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