If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Take a picture. It’ll last longer.” Don’t mind if I do. I’ll wait until you’re asleep and naked, though.” — K. Webster Copy Share Image
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ” — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that. — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself. — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
“life is like a camera,focus on whats important,capture the good times,develop from negatives and if things don't workout take another shot.” — Stylegems Copy Share Image
I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl… — Christophe Lemaitre Copy Share Image
“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over… — Karen D. Best Copy Share Image
I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
The only times we are consciously aware of the authorship of a photograph, I would argue, are when we contemplate the photographs… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired. — Greg Gorman Copy Share Image
A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the… — Kathrine Switzer Copy Share Image
You will never go wrong with actually photographing process. It's primitive. Humans love to see the bipedal animal in us finish things.… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part… — Irving Penn Copy Share Image
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get… — James Van Der Zee Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you get tagged in a photo on a night, at a place that you either on leaves or… — Kand3n Copy Share Image
Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, and if things don't work out, just… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way… — Nick Zinner Copy Share Image
I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera. — Amanda de Cadenet Copy Share Image
I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
As you warm to the ideas expressed in Total Recall, you find yourself reaching for your digital camera to record the moment… — Donna Dubinsky Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my… — Basil Rathbone Copy Share Image
Throughout my football career, I've always been somebody who's been very aware, and I know when the camera is on me, and… — Colton Underwood Copy Share Image
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do… — John Glen Copy Share Image
My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
I'm in between an installation artist, video artist and photographer. And when you work with nude bodies, you're immediately called a pornographer… — Spencer Tunick Copy Share Image
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
