My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter. — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death. — John Berger Copy Share Image
For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological. — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being represented if it is only our image that is invited to the table?” — Mariam Khan Copy Share Image
Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake… — Weegee Copy Share Image
“Government property. Trespassers will be prosecuted." The sweetest poetry is written on the signs you walk up to from the back, and… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Photoshop is just like makeup. When its done well it looks great, and when its overdone you look like a crazy a**hole. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Photography was a way for me to freeze time and to capture the moments that were happy and healthy. I saw a… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline. — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“then recompose your shot, just place the focus point in the viewfinder on your subject, depress the shutter release button halfway until… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended,… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me… — Busta Rhymes Copy Share Image
The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
What's the woman doing there?" he asked. "Covering a scratch on the hood. She was cheaper than a new paint job." He… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit. — Chris Burkard Copy Share Image
A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz Copy Share Image
Not a couple cameras now they bring the whole crew. Bad bitch ride wit me so she pose too. — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist. — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it, — Jean Shrimpton Copy Share Image
I have made over 70 pictures and in only 10 of them did I portray a really 'bad man.' — Peter Lorre Copy Share Image
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
