“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s… — Weegee Copy Share Image
“I’m not trying to evoke emotions in the reader. My job is to bring about an understanding through pictures.” — Michael Siegel Copy Share Image
I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not… — Daniel B. Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
“We know the original relation of the theater and the cult of the Dead: the first actors separated themselves from the community… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Most importantly, postmodernism comes down on the side of photography and power, not photography as power. As a consequence, photography continues to… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of… — Jimmy Chin Copy Share Image
To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We are one human race, and there must be understanding among all men. For those who look at the problems of today,… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The thing about photography is, some people surround themselves with extremely strong subject matter. And unless you're a moron, you're going to… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
Taking good selfies doesn't mean you have to snap dozens of times continuously and uploading half of them. — Mielya Saladdin Copy Share Image
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations. — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly. — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs… — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
We try never to have pictures of our children in the magazines, because there are strange people out there. But the paparazzi… — Princess Stephanie of Monaco Copy Share Image
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value… — Auguste Lumiere Copy Share Image
We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
“There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that” — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I used to like taking pictures. I wanted to capture precious moments and make them mine. I wanted to hang on to… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“I've thought about the pictures often; what they show or, more accurately, don't show. Remembering what was happening elsewhere: in the distance,… — Harriet Lane Copy Share Image