The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying… — Sal Mineo Copy Share Image
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Holy fuck—would somebody please tell him why a massive photo of a penis was sitting front and center in the courtroom?” — Julie James Copy Share Image
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Any images that I've had retouched, I look at them, and I think, 'Oh I actually don't want that.' That's why I… — Iskra Lawrence Copy Share Image
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones,… — GRiZ Copy Share Image
There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down...… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
“Through photography and image I have been afforded the privilege of sharing the stories and myths of people's lives with others. The… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make… — Minor White Copy Share Image
...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are… — Van Deren Coke Copy Share Image
People say to me, "Who's your favorite kind of photographer?" Or "Who would be your favorite photographer to have in a workshop?"… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Don't overthink things in front of you. I fit moves you, shoot it. If it's fun, shoot it. If you've never seen… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The age of the world picture is not concerned with a visual picturing, with mimesis, but rather with a modelling or framing… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the… — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
“Not just a recipe book, but a genuine overview of Tuscany's culinary history and culture, a journey in images through photographs taken… — Tuscookany Copy Share Image
If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just… — Judy Sheindlin Copy Share Image
In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything… — Roy DeCarava Copy Share Image
Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says… — Rankin Copy Share Image
It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
I hate, and I hate using that word, that's twice, but people that will do the old take the camera out and… — The Undertaker Copy Share Image
I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
