“They investigate the meaning of inert objects and dumb pets and they poke at family privacy. They learn to see things twice.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
“An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get tricked by a photo and then we say look at her she is hot lets get at that hook… — Kevin Mccarty Copy Share Image
Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
“On Photography (Sontag, Susan) - Your Highlight on page 41 | location 513-513 | Added on Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:43:40 The important thing is not to blink.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close,… — Anja Niedringhaus Copy Share Image
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
“Every civilized man or woman has, I suppose, some picture of himself or herself, and is annoyed when anything happens that seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
See, I think our whole society is much too problem-solving oriented. It is far more interesting to participate in 'problem creation'... You… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“But any picture could deal with the problem of light. The problem with this picture is greater than that of reflective surfaces… — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
At times, I felt bad because while giving a shot, I would just forget facing the camera, or knowing the right angle. — Nidhhi Agerwal Copy Share Image
Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the… — Georgia Toffolo Copy Share Image
With 'The Missing Picture,' we'd shot for a year and a half already when this idea of the clay figurine, the life… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We were just in our apartment, pointing the camera at each other, taking turns holding it and saying lines, All of a… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“Photography created, and then social media aggravated, the vast majority of people’s inability to enjoy what is happening … without the urge… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I found my first picture of Amanda Lepore online in fashion magazines. It was the most beautiful thing that I had ever… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping… — James Wan Copy Share Image
A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the… — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
My dad's an amazing photographer, and he loves a Sunday market. So the house was full of all the stuff he'd buy,… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you can talk about a photograph being true or false. I don't think such a claim has any… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
