Life is like a camera; Focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if it goes wrong...Take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were,… — Thomas Demand Copy Share Image
You can't do shiny skin for high-definition cameras without it looking awful. HD shows off all of your imperfections. Even selfies require… — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Photographs help people look at things they may not be able or may not want to look at. Until you can look… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is… — Jeanne Ryan Copy Share Image
“It’s the difference between your wife’s passport photograph and the portraits you took when you got engaged. Both may have been created… — David duChemin Copy Share Image
Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
A huge part of what we do as actors is learning to ignore the camera, as if it's not even there, while… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera… — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
“In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“To deal with the chaos of life, I escape into the prism of glass, dancing to the visual music in my mind.… — Polly Norman Copy Share Image
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life… — Peter Turnley Copy Share Image
My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject… — Cole Weston Copy Share Image
I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I… — Salt Bae Copy Share Image
What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun,… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
“My memory has preserved what happened next as a series of snapshots, like freeze-frame stills from an art house movie, with those… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image