It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols. — Vilem Flusser Copy Share Image
“Klepp, however...must have given the cigarette girl a photo unbeknownst to me, because he became engaged to the snippety little thing and… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you're going through an emotional experience and you're focussed completely on what's happening, you can't even spare any attention that the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“He had first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes celebrities make is being overly friendly. They allow photo shoots in their homes, even their bedrooms and… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
“After the attack, it was again the image of the country, rather than the well-being of those who had been caught up… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; later, that's what will… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Pictures capture a single frame, but great photographers reveal the stories waiting to be discovered within.” — Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer Copy Share Image
I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing… — Ami Vitale Copy Share Image
When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T. — Vicki Goldberg Copy Share Image
I would much rather interact with people in person and be in the moment than taking pictures of the moment. — Kelly Rohrbach Copy Share Image
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
The photographs are a visual record of Kachchh as it delightfully exists today, but might change differently tomorrow. — RMKATTA Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors,… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to… — Chantal Joffe Copy Share Image
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no… — Ken Auletta Copy Share Image
I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give yoursel… — Scott Bourne Copy Share Image
The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
“Jenn said something about taking a picture to make it last longer. I didn’t need to. That moment would always be burned… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image