The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or… — Idris Khan Copy Share Image
During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
I started making little films with a 16 mm camera as an undergraduate at Yale. My first job out of college was… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
This might seem off the track, but an interesting thing to me that others could talk about better than I, but one… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
“Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the… — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so… — Daria Snadowsky Copy Share Image
Take nothing but photos leave nothing but footsteps and kill nothing but time because here's to the nights that turn into mornings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Klepp, however...must have given the cigarette girl a photo unbeknownst to me, because he became engaged to the snippety little thing and… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“These pictures from the photo albums of my childhood are artifacts of a time when I was happy and whole. They are… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one,… — Kalyani Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
You can crop me out of the pictures we took together, but you can never crop me out of the memories we… — Theheartcatcher Copy Share Image
I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different… — Sarah Snook Copy Share Image
I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
