Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
“If the photographer isn't going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
“You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I've always said that the Europeans subconsciously knew how to pose because of the culture or tradition of having your portrait made.… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
The minute you start saying something, 'Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!' you are already close to view of the person… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
After I have photographed the way I like to, I feel as I might if I had been making love all day,… — Eva Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“This is not a how-to book. It is a how-to-think-about-how-to book. In it I bombard you with images and metaphors with never… — Judith Mason Copy Share Image
“There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment -- click goes the camera and on goes life, the… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it!… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“To obey orders in this family has been my privilege for the last twenty years--a privilege which has been an unqualified pleasure,… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“I was in Sarasota, Florida, on a spring-break trip with my friends Bruce and Karen Moore. Bruce and I were waiting on… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I like the drawings. And as a photography fan myself, I would look at Helmut Newton or Irving Penn and like to… — Miles Aldridge Copy Share Image
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
My brother had fabulous children before I had children and for some reason I wanted to photograph them, and that was when… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
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