I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Do you ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? Makes you wonder how many strangers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography. It seemed like you just had… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive… — Bill Cunningham Copy Share Image
For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
I don't know about other people's cameras. Mine is a thing I had cobbled up, it holds together with tape and is… — Mario Giacomelli Copy Share Image
Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies,… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but… — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
I love looking at old photographs. I don't know if it's something that gets more appealing as one gets older and you're… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna,… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time,… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
You see a picture and you understand perfectly, immediately, the basic thing that's happening. It's probably more accessible because we are in… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Photographs don’t discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
Getting photographs is not the most important thing. For me it's the act of photographing. It's enlightening, therapeutic and satisfying, because the… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I… — Gerardo Suter Copy Share Image
I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
“From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I've worked with actors who are like, 'I don't even want to know where the camera is; I just want to feel… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
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