I think I am most fond of the unseen part. I mean that the various cultural experiences that I go through, and… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
I'd really rather leave it to others to say what they see in it and to see if I've put something into… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel…… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you'd just have a screen… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
“what the pictures cannot do is express the complexity that might help us understand why these terrible things are happening. Only words… — John Humphrys Copy Share Image
There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
Even when political reporting is not reduced to personality, political photography is. An article might offer depth and complexity, but is illustrated… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
The photographer Ruth Bernhard used to tell me that this is like asking somebody how they evolved their signature. It is not… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special… — Caleb Deschanel Copy Share Image
People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact… — Max Pam Copy Share Image
I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world,… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
“If you’ve actually seen a ghost—and I assure you that you probably have, within the last month—it would have just looked like… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
These days it seems that physical truth can easily be rearranged, rethought, or re-created outright. Any image can be made pristine, all… — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer… — Sid Grossman Copy Share Image
This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I spent nine days shooting the film 'Camera Trap' in Nepal in 2014. The journey consisted of four flights, including a terrifying… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think I just do what I feel is good to do. Everybody can give me their suggestions, but at the end,… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
When I say 'rare,' it's my own term. It's like you're doing something with a photo that is dominant that no one… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of… — Ian Anthony Dale Copy Share Image
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of… — William A. Ewing Copy Share Image
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
![“There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of…” quote by Sally Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/sally-mann-15174_arena_there-is-something-about-this-process-an_1679241.png)
![“[My photography teacher] gave me the Mexican Day Books of Edward Weston and just blew me away with this work. The fact that you could be this fabulous visual artist, with all this milieu of people like Diego Rivera and you could sleep with these gorgeous, amazing women, that you could live that…” quote by Max Pam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/max-pam-75748_amazing-woman_my-photography-teacher-gave-me-the-mexic_670029.jpg)
![“[William] Eggleston's photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket - it must be somewhere - with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds…” quote by Geoff Dyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f90/geoff-dyer-8822_flight_william-eggleston-s-photographs-look-lik_1681804.jpg)
