I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, 'If I just had a… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman… — George Stevens Copy Share Image
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
“By some estimates, the data-storage curve is rocketing upward at the rate of 800 percent per year. Organizations are collecting so much… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
“Instead, I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. We say we’re looking at a person’s… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure,… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I photographed with film for many years; now that I work in digital, the difference is enormous. The quality is unbelievable: I… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
If I see a nice photography book in New York, and I don't want to have to carry that back to Japan… — Hiroshi Fujiwara 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
... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of… — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images… — John Hench Copy Share Image
My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Now everyone's main objective of taking photographs is to have a photograph for Twitter or Facebook. I find that troubling. If you… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited - as all good photographers like to be - in the right place… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
“... I thought about the word profile and what a weird double meaning it had. we say we're looking at a person's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see… — Anne Geddes Copy Share Image
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not… — Brassai Copy Share Image
There's almost an element of selfies that is like photo therapy. People look upon themselves in a picture and then they critique… — Nigel Barker Copy Share Image
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I… — Anton Corbijn 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
![“[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since a picture was what a gallery or museum was meant to hold (all the while, of course, I was claiming that I was denying the standard, rejecting it...)” quote by Vito Acconci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee2/vito-acconci-13895_art_photography-was-necessary-to-make-my-pla_205941.jpg)
![“For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.” quote by Bell Hooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/bell-hooks-464_black_for-black-folks-the-camera-provided-a-me_2894806.jpg)
![“[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).” quote by Walead Beshty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/walead-beshty-45594_belief_x-ray-s-accidental-discovery-in-the-late_1448388.jpg)
