Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
“From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—” “‘To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation… photographing has become the visual… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
When you are cleaning, sweeping, swabbing floors and running around for the littlest of things on a shoot for an ad or… — Richa Pallod Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
It's nuts to me that people want to take a picture with me or want to tell me a story about their… — Beto O'Rourke Copy Share Image
PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Every civilized man or woman has, I suppose, some picture of himself or herself, and is annoyed when anything happens that seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Actually, no. I won't ever go digital. I work with thirty-five or large format. I like the hand-jobs, you know. And I… — Pansy Schneider-Horst Copy Share Image
Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
I think that lens flares can work really well under certain circumstances. Personally, I am trying to get rid of them most… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic.… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I'll look at photos of myself, when I'm at awards or something, and kind of cringe because I can see myself trying… — Sam Kerr Copy Share Image
I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me. — John Constable Copy Share Image
I think people took a while to accept me for who I am, and I've learnt to articulate myself better when on… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind. — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
To teach consequential photography, don't bother with Photoshop or f-stops. Create a craving for images. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me. — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer. — David Leitch Copy Share Image
“All of us have photographic memories, but spend a lifetime learning how to block off the things that are really in there.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use. — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
Girls misuse it! models sell it! photograhers cage it! doctors advice it! death freezes it! artists create it! Guess, what's that? It's… — Babloo Copy Share Image
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
