My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize… — James Ensor Copy Share Image
We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political… — Gyorgy Lukacs Copy Share Image
Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
Tactility was rejected in conceptual photography. I embrace the possibilities of my medium. Surface, texture, and tactility is something analog photography can… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war,… — Eugene Richards Copy Share Image
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I very strongly believe that if you go back to your roots, if you mine that inner territory, you can bring out… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
Being constantly in the public eye gives me a special responsibility, particularly that of using the impact of photographs to transmit a… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
I honestly don't like Photoshop. I think when people Photoshop things, all of a sudden you're like, 'That's not even me anymore.'… — Lily Aldridge Copy Share Image
There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley… — Erica Tazel Copy Share Image
We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic,… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
The mere notion of photography, when we introduce it into our meditation on the genesis of historical knowledge and its true value,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to… — Rachel Khoo Copy Share Image
It's an old, established rule, but "golden hour" lighting is ideal because the first and last hours of sunlight are diffuse and… — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos… — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The Baudelaires were sad to see a framed photograph of a kind-looking man with a handful of crackers in one hand and… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
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