It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph — Bruce Gilden Copy Share Image
Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. — William Klein Copy Share Image
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them… — Bruce Gilden Copy Share Image
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. When you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their soul! — Ted Grant Copy Share Image
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot.… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. — Trent Parke Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph. — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph. — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are. — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
