Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun,… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
“And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
“My memory has preserved what happened next as a series of snapshots, like freeze-frame stills from an art house movie, with those… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
A selfie, like any photograph, interrupts experience to mark the moment. In this, it shares something with all the other ways we… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world,… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don't have 14 photos of yourself… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth:… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way.… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“An Australian couple near us asks Darren to take a picture of them with the Colosseum as the backdrop, and when he’s… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
Looking into my future, I don't always want to be in front of the camera. I want to be behind the camera… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“To deal with the chaos of life, I escape into the prism of glass, dancing to the visual music in my mind.… — Polly Norman Copy Share Image
“In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get… — Phil Stern Copy Share Image
My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life… — Peter Turnley Copy Share Image
Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I… — Salt Bae Copy Share Image
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject… — Cole Weston Copy Share Image
Nowadays when you're shooting HD people will walk in front of the camera, it can just be rolling all the time -… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
“What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?” — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. — Alberto Korda Copy Share Image
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great… — John Dunning Copy Share Image
The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment. — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done?… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process,… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my… — Bruce Weber Copy Share Image
I know I should ignore them and not give them a picture but I cant help it. Something just takes over when… — Shia Labeouf Copy Share Image
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
