Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money,… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer… — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
“I’ve long suspected that many of my memories of childhood are actually drawn from old pictures, that they are a composite of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world.… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to… — Seamus McGarvey Copy Share Image
I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The… — Eva Fuka Copy Share Image
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
I used to be a kid with a camera, and that used to be kind of endearing to people. Now I'm sort… — Alexandra C. Pelosi Copy Share Image
The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself. — Minor White Copy Share Image
In looking at photos from my childhood, I discovered something I did not know... that on my father's birthdays, I have photographs… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality. — Barbara Ess Copy Share Image
Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether… — William Klein Copy Share Image
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a screenplay writer or a photographer. First question people asked me: 'Who do… — Shenaz Treasury Copy Share Image
During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general -… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Working myself into a position of total versatility, so that I can do anything I want to do at the time I… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I like the experience of being in a shoot, and I'm a total exhibitionist, but I don't like to look at them. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
I love taking pix , it's the only bridge which you walk on once you want to remeber some amazing events ! — MLY AB Copy Share Image
It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just… — Chase Jarvis Copy Share Image
