All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
“It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the "picture" end only with… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The late, great ABC golf anchor Jim McKay once advised me, 'When you look into the camera, imagine you are talking to… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
“Each photo is like a novel I can never open, Gary had explained once. I can hold it in my hand and… — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
“We're so distracted, we're missing out own lives. The parent who records his kid's dance recital or first steps or graduation is… — Dave Bruno Copy Share Image
I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Once you make decisions, you can't go back, but in photography, that process can continue. With film, you have to eliminate all… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at.… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like… — D. A. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things that came out of 9/11 was all the pictures taken by amateurs, by people just going… — Stanley Greene Copy Share Image
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
“The photo was published in the majority of Brazilian newspapers in a full-page spread when CNN and all the television channels of… — Ignacio De Loyola Brandao Copy Share Image
“Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would… — Victoria Hislop Copy Share Image
I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
“Oh, come on, just this once," Eve said. "Protects your neck. As in your arteries and veins? That's kind of crucial, right?"… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Photos never tell the whole story. They are singular moments captured to encompass the illusion of happiness. It’s to remind ourselves of… — Paul Allih Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
I have photographed sharks in waters around the globe, and I always want more and yearn to peer deeper into their world.… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
I think the crux of this urgent and real conversation about representation and diversity in art-making and storytelling both behind and in… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“What pricks me is the discovery of this equivalence. In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
“Zar mi Friedrich ne može reći jesu li moje fotografije umjetnost? Što je uopće umjetnost? Ostarjela sam, a da me nisu uputili… — Jasna Horvat Copy Share Image
I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
I wish to present myself in front of the camera, each time under the features of a different woman. I would like… — Romy Schneider Copy Share Image
“In order to know someone who is at some level unknowable, you must leave yourself wide open. If you don't, you foreclose… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
Increasingly as I've gotten older, I'm much more interested in what the reality of the shoot is going to be versus what… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
I'm not really too worried about the mystique of Jon Jones. Because I know Jon Jones' core. I remember when Jon Jones… — Rashad Evans Copy Share Image
A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
![“My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at. Photography's quite clear here [in the U.S.], it's very well-explained. My photography's perhaps not as well-explained.” quote by Anton Corbijn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/anton-corbijn-8467_america_my-photography-is-very-european-in-ameri_2662373.jpg)
![“[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and…” quote by Janet Malcolm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a3/janet-malcolm-10933_age_richard-avedon-s-camera-dwells-on-the-ho_1419993.jpg)
