“To dream" means to focus and zoom the photos of destiny called visions for clearer view, manipulation and exploitation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything. — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
“A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them. — Paul Emsley Copy Share Image
“When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before… — Sameh Elsayed Copy Share Image
Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in… — David Travis Copy Share Image
A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“Two kinds of people , they spend a lot of time to take a perfect shot of God's creation from the same… — Fida Rasool Copy Share Image
“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of… — David Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
“He looked at the cameraman. “Was the photographer your idea? Not getting enough TV time?” “No,” replied Calvin. “I’ve had all of… — Chris Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Er, why do you need to work in a dark room, though?" he said. "The imps don't need it, do they?" "Ah,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Me not working hard? Yea right picture that with a kodak and better yet, go to times square. Take a picture of… — Afrojack Copy Share Image
I love taking photos, because the best thing about taking photos is that it never changes, even when the person does. — Ryaj Ablando Catayas Copy Share Image
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera. — Nick Woodman Copy Share Image
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got… — Nadia Giosia Copy Share Image
There's a lot of different things that make me want to take photos. A lot of it is, for a long time… — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem. — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
I'd rather be on this side of the camera. I feel more comfortable. I'd rather keep myself centered and keep my ego… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
Photography is away of feeling, of touching, of loving what you have caught on film, and that is captured forever even when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
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