My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the… — Taylor Steele Copy Share Image
I had to leave some traces. In the beginning, I would give complete instructions to the photographer. In the '70s, people would… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Among photojournalists there is still a sense that doing a photomontage is far graver than adding a filter. I am against this… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas… — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy to teach me. I learned in the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
There's this one photograph of guy I know named Simon. The way he's standing, the background, the way his tie's flipping in… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
If I walk on the street, if I go to a restaurant, people come to me and say: "Can we take a… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world.… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck...… — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
I believed it was necessary to investigate photography, dismantle it, jettison all the non-essential components, and begin again with a stripped down… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady.… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I could take a cow and implant a camera in it and let it amble around the city or in its own… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
We're not going the photography route. I think there is a real distinction between photos and images, and Flickr is for photos,… — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
I actually own works of art I've always wanted to own - I collect photographs by the late William Claxton. I met… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes,… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I got to work with Robert DeNiro once and it was a strange experience. Gwyneth Paltrow and I were doing Great Expectations… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
“Words present us with little pictures, clear and familiar, like those that are hung on the walls of schools to give children… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie. A friend of mine is working with her on her next film and told me… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Any photographer worth his/her salt - that is, any photographer of professional caliber, in control of the craft, regardless of imagistic bent… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
“Most users chose to run a “voyeur channel,” which was like being the star of your own twenty-four-hour reality show. Hovering virtual… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Once digital came, I could see my images instantly right there on the camera. I think that makes you a better photographer… — Scott Kelby Copy Share Image
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