In my philosophy, the meaning of life derives from the people one has known and loved. I have met my share of… — Walter Rosenblum Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“He wanted to live life to the extreme, but without any mess or complications. He wanted to live life in such a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
“Image of an image of an image... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The photo used on the news had been taken by a tourist passing through Sopchoppy—that was the actual name of the town… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected,… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
For me being able to see all different places where I've skied and cherish them, and be able to see them -… — Resi Stiegler Copy Share Image
The danger is that you can wind up doing tourist pictures. I want to see it fresh and see the little bits… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for the dedication that many people have, on the other side of the Atlantic, to photography. You… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
If I was on the cover of Artforum and my photos were selling for lots of money. If I could be doing… — Richard Kern Copy Share Image
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
“All profound changes in consciousness, by their very nature, bring with them characteristic amnesias. Out of such oblivions, in specific historical circumstances,… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“And again. I kept clicking until the photograph was demolished, until it was no more than a mosaic of gray tiles, adding… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I never thought that my work was going to become well-known. It started happening slowly, without my realizing it. But when I… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
“This book does not try to “document” any particular aspect of Indian life. To me, doing such a thing would seem a… — Waswo X. Waswo Copy Share Image
I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Photography's future is infinite and bright. It's growing exponentially, so that's great, but for me as a practitioner, that exponential growth makes… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
We don't understand what photography is doing. We don't understand the power of its rhetoric. We don't understand why the Provoke photographers… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
[My mother] died a few months ago, and when she was dead I kissed her lips. For me it was a beautiful… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
If it's a likeness, alone, it's not a success. If, through my portraits, you can come to know the subjects more meaningfully,… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in… — Carson Grant Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of… — William A. Ewing Copy Share Image
I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
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