“A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...” — J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them. — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Everyone likes taking their own photos and seeing themselves reflected back. — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
“I've seen the photos," he said. "Photos are never the same as the real thing," I said.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
...photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum. — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
Most photographs take their cues from advertising, where the priority is high image content for an easy Gestalt reading. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I… — William Klein Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to… — James Agee Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen,… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
“I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end,… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that… — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I… — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures -… — Werner Bischof Copy Share Image
But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel. — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Photo shoot fresh, looking like wealth. Im bout to call the paparazzi on myself. — Jay Z Copy Share Image
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me, — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
A PHOTOGRAPH Is Worth A THOUSAND WORDS, But PHOTOSHOP Can Produce A THOUSAND LIES. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“The (i)studium(i) is ultimately always coded, the (i)punctum is not)...” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
If you get to the top on your own, who'll take the picture? — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar Copy Share Image
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people. — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
“Set in place the lovers who will afterwards be photographs.” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
