“Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait. — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
I choose colors I like and will photograph well. I don't do color theory! — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me. — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it… — Frederick H. Evans Copy Share Image
As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Most of you probably already know this but for those who don't, I was a bit of a trailblazer in the field… — Krystal Ball Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
“I liked watching them, all three of them around my truck. I wanted time to stop because everything seemed so simple, Dante… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him.… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
What I find most satisfying about photography is the way in which it allows me to document 'reality' while at the same… — Alix Smith Copy Share Image
A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue,… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing.… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera. — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality. — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.” — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
If youre going to be sexy in a photo, youd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy. — Peta Wilson Copy Share Image
David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk. — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident. — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos. — Tan France Copy Share Image
I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image