The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic".… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“Your eyes are not really windows through which you look out into the world. Your eyes are cameras that send electronic images… — Michael A. Singer Copy Share Image
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture,… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone should understand that getting good photos is paramount to everything. You have to do what it takes and often comfort and… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“Spirit photos were sometimes made to remember someone who had died. During the American Civil War, when hundreds of thousands of people… — Avi Copy Share Image
If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Life is like a camera, just focus on whats important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somebody who is listening is super-interested. I think that's what's interesting to a camera, but who knows? — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding… — Benjamin Avila Copy Share Image
Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
“Film critic Tommy Edison, who’s been blind since birth, takes photos of his day-to-day life and posts them to Instagram under @blindfilmcritic.… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion… — John Knoll Copy Share Image
But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
In my heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished… — Inge Morath Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
That Awkward moment when your friend uploaded a picture you took with 'em and you didn't look Good at all…aaaauuuuugh — Junior Dè Rèál Testament Copy Share Image
“O Lucky! How can you desire to be uncivil while all around are Google Cameras. Says Bhutta(After 20 dozen moons)” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Short Story Writer Copy Share Image
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the… — Rennie Ellis Copy Share Image
There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I don't even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I'm so self-conscious about things. — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes. — Graham Goode Copy Share Image
...the worry over media manipulation of photographs pales beside the threat that we will be exposed to an unedited, unvetted picture world… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
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