Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
In life, the best moments are those that your camera always failed to capture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.” — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
I LOVE PICTURES,... because the best thing about them is that they never CHANGE,... even when the people in it do.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“When asked about his photographic techniques, Arthur “Weegee” Fellig, a photojournalist from the 30s and 40s, answered, “f/8 and be there.” — Tony Northrup Copy Share Image
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
“Cohen was on his knees taking a picture of a passing cloud, an unremarkable cirrus shaped as if it were sketched expressly… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“There is no narrative now, no “And then,” only a disjointed series of images. A pile of photographs I’ve flipped through so… — Kat Rosenfield Copy Share Image
I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of… — Erik Madigan Heck Copy Share Image
I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
“Here,” he says, removing my camera from its dry home and handing it to me to turn on. “I want to take… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. — Michael Spiller Copy Share Image
I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it. — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love. — Lawrence Blume Copy Share Image
A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. — Fred Picker Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out. — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
“Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Looking at a photograph and wishing you could re-live that moment over and over again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
