Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery… — Joyce Tenneson 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
In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. Whether you're photographing for yourself, for… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
“The packet of fading photos gives it away if you know how to look: always a rundown porch landing and stair rails… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
It's a profoundly different thing to be able to refer to the images you are taking at the time and check them… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars.… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I'm just like a photographer or a director. Of course I have an opinion, but I don't think my opinion, or what… — Stromae Copy Share Image
When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about… — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
“The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Most of Arbus's work lies within the Warhol aesthetic, that is, defines itself in relation to the twin poles of boringness and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had taught me. From… — Mary Simses Copy Share Image
We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity.… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand… — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
All seeing, I think, is painful. Every photograph is a little sting, a hurt inflicted in its subject, but even more: every… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
“At the top of his file was a three-dimensional holograph scanned in from his military graduation. Cress preferred it to the infamous… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
After his hockey days, my dad became a photographer, and a really good one, at that. He used to shoot the Expos… — Martin Brodeur Copy Share Image
I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
“Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war. Tourist aren't even allowed to take photos with the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
![“The wonderful thing is that Clive [Oppenheimer ] insisted on training his camera - his private camera - on me at one point. We were discussing things such as how to avoid certain dangers, while reflecting on a volcano that had threatened to explode 40 years ago.” quote by Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75f/werner-herzog-964_cameras_the-wonderful-thing-is-that-clive-oppenh_2489292.jpg)
![“The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park, in 1959. [...] I'm tired of looking at the photograph now. I open my fingers. It falls to the sand at my feet. I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so…” quote by Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ab/alan-moore-583_astronomy_the-photograph-is-in-my-hand-it-is-the-p_2425984.jpg)
![“A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large…” quote by Dan Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f1/dan-graham-70443_art_a-spatial-temporal-work-had-only-to-be-e_3179991.jpg)
![“While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.” quote by Dawoud Bey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e4a/dawoud-bey-52092_articulating_while-i-have-devised-various-formal-stra_29613.jpg)
![“I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious…” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/569/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_aesthetic_i-didn-t-want-to-be-criticized-for-takin_1474127.jpg)
