I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I… — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“We don’t wish the day away. We embrace every second. Every new sunrise brings the possibility of possibilities.” — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
Why am I the weird one for browsing through your pictures? You're the one who uploaded over a thousand pictures of yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points,… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
...one day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel… — David Hurn Copy Share Image
A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture. — Charlie Waite Copy Share Image
What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman… — George Stevens Copy Share Image
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
“Instead, I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“By some estimates, the data-storage curve is rocketing upward at the rate of 800 percent per year. Organizations are collecting so much… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him,… — Guido Palau Copy Share Image
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
I would film one or two videos a weekend and upload those throughout the week. For a month and a half, I… — Kian Lawley Copy Share Image
Clarity is important. Part of what I'm trying to do with some of these pictures is eliminate as much of the potential,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's… — Frank Horvat Copy Share Image
Everyone hates their picture being taken and they're nervous and they're bringing all of that. When I meet with them they realize… — Carol Friedman Copy Share Image
There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I barely remembered my father; I'm confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Those moments that we let the cameras in, they're precious and you're only used to your people being part of it but… — Ajla Tomljanovic Copy Share Image
That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing. — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand Copy Share Image
Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable. — Brassai Copy Share Image
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he,… — Lena Olin Copy Share Image
If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is… — Mike Evans Copy Share Image
A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless — Raghu Rai Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
“Collectors wanted pictures of the items they'd gathered, both to form Catalina of the whole and to record individual favorites.” — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
I do not do selfies! That's a tough one because I don't do selfies, but I think it's all about personal style.… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
