“The truth was that her photographs were an extension of who she was, what she thought, how she felt. It took perfect… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
My work has gotten a bit strange. I do consulting, and people ask, "Could you give me your opinion on this, and… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ?… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
Did you notice what happened when digital photography arrived? Suddenly there were four times as many people on set for a shoot!… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I think that people are so quick to judge, I mean just a photograph you know, and I understand everyone wants to… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the person I photograph. The world is so beautiful as it is; there's so much going on, which is… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
“My father has the proper degrees and framed pictures on the walls, though they're mostly taped over with photos of children, family… — Alex McKeithen Copy Share Image
Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape,… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“In taking that photograph, I understood something I will never forget: how I wished to arrest all the beauty that came before… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
I've been so lonely trying to become a photographer. If I'd known that before, I don't know if I had the courage… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula… — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“It’s because I’m a witch that I can take these pictures,” Jennie said. “A good portrait photographer shows the outside of a… — Debora Geary Copy Share Image
The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
“I remembered a time we were going through magazines. There was this one model who looked icy to the touch, in total… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
I went back to photography in the 1990s. But from the 60s to the 90s I didn't really take any photographs at… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues.… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
Every image is in some way a “portrait,” not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
“Look at Flickr. It began as a multiplayer online game called The Game Neverending. Its creators soon realized the photo-sharing aspect of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
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![“...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.” quote by Imogen Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c9/imogen-cunningham-15682_eye_there-are-too-many-people-studying-it-ph_969833.png)
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