A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
“These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“One question that especially intrigues me is exactly when humpbacks started coming to Hawaii and why. In artwork and oral histories of… — Charles Nicklin Copy Share Image
I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what exists objectively before the… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark 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
Books on scientific photography with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Felice Frankel's Envisioning Science is chock full of mind-boggling images… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
“My friend Jim Richardson, a National Geographic photojournalist, likes to make the distinction between being a "traveler" and a "sightseer." According to… — Bob Krist Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
I'm trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
“Looking into the mirror I ask myself: "You live in a house equipped with air conditioning. You eat tasty food. You utilize… — Marinella Venanzi Copy Share Image
I've had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it's paparazzi photographers or for film posters.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I never had any intention nor interest in being an artist, but when I made work I realized that this was my… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
“I asked Bill what career path he thought I should take, and he replied, “Live the artist’s life.” For years I pondered… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
“The photograph showed a young couple smiling at the camera. The man didn't look much older than seventeen or eighteen, with light-coloured… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
The Photo Album is the weakest record. For the first time in our careers, we found ourselves with an economic incentive to… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“Living the artist’s life, it turns out, is full of surprises. Yes, it is about being sensitive to beauty, about creating exquisite… — Mallory M. O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a messenger. I don't want people to be concerned about me. I want them to be concerned about the people in… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
![“My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a high shutter speed and things like that. Long before I picked it up myself, I remember being on a slide at a country club going into the water and…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca0/jeff-vespa-25539_artistic_my-mom-had-bought-this-camera-to-take-cl_266973.jpg)
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