Over the years, photography has been to me what a journal is to a writer - a record of things seen and… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera… — Craig Gillespie Copy Share Image
“Cameras are supposed to help you relive a moment, but if you never live the moment in the first place, because you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to remind me of you. Of course, so could a photograph, but how am I supposed to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph… — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
I am so not one to share body pictures, not that I have anything against them, it's more just like I've never… — Kaitlyn Bristowe Copy Share Image
“I pretended not to notice, but Dad looked sort of deflated there on the edge of my bed. A lost, even humbled… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true… — John Loengard Copy Share Image
When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice… — Eliot Porter Copy Share Image
There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls… — Alberto Korda Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas Copy Share Image
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
When I think that I started this career so early, my case is not the case of an artist who becomes popular… — Shakira Copy Share Image
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a… — Ezra Stoller Copy Share Image
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have… — Ken Rockwell Copy Share Image
Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we… — Mattias Klum Copy Share Image
Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919) — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
“With my wedding photography business, I want repeat customers. So hooray for divorce! That’s why I take lots of pictures—of cheating spouses.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express. — Danae Elon Copy Share Image
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image