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
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'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
“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
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
I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves. — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
It's the best, it's so weird because, having your camera on constantly is known to be such a bad thing because it's… — David Dobrik Copy Share Image
I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
“You see, i f you have t rue photographic vision, you have clar i ty and i f you have clarity, you… — Scott Bourne Copy Share Image
I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
Here's what I think: the best author photo ever taken is the author photo of you holding your extra-large engulfing rabbit and… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
The world of photography is very self-aware. Everybody is always looking around. So it's quite difficult to stand up with a megaphone… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Life is like a camera; Focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if it goes wrong...Take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You can't do shiny skin for high-definition cameras without it looking awful. HD shows off all of your imperfections. Even selfies require… — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were,… — Thomas Demand Copy Share Image
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera… — Joseph Monninger Copy Share Image
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never understood why people take pictures of themselves giving the finger. Was the camera mean to you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He took twelve pictures that day. Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived. — Shakira Copy Share Image
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it,… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other… — Ankit Tiwari Copy Share Image
“Morel made particularly effective use of photography. A central part of almost every Congo protest meeting was a slide show, comprising some… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes.… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I've already had our picture in a frame. but you started playing games so I watched it burn with your games. — Tatyana Matias Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image