To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Some have said that if you take a great picture in color and take away the color, you'll have a great black-and-white… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Most of the photographs I make are personal pictures and never end up in print. Even the magazines I shoot for on… — David Alan Harvey Copy Share Image
When I worked on an erotic shoot... I shot digitally. It helped the models get into it because they could come over… — Rankin Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Every camera shoots horizontal, right? So we're all super used to framing things with lots of horizontal room. We've seen this new… — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish… — William Albert Allard Copy Share Image
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
In the same way, photography, for me, has fragmented. You do have people doing bodies of work - often with found photographs… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
“The sun creates your shadow; the mirror takes your shadow into itself; if you take a photo of the mirror, your shadow… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
My house is full of antics, mayhem, foolishness, carrying on, cutting up, shucking and jiving, and I have that whether cameras are… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain,… — Cristina Garcia Rodero Copy Share Image
The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I've done it for so many years, it's still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it… — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Every time Sachs posed for a picture, he was forced to impersonate himself, to play the game of pretending to be who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was… — Jack Delano Copy Share Image
All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
There was a stage in my career when I started to have problems with the vanity aspect of the subject. I got… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
The subject I liked best was painting, but the teachers didn't approve of my experiments and sometimes criticized me in front of… — Hiroshi Hamaya Copy Share Image
It was really bizarre, that Sabzian business. You know I had no interest in being photographed before this incident. But then not… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
One time I told this lady to give me all her money, she said no. So I cut her and pulled her… — Richard Ramirez Copy Share Image
Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I think we always think of the camera - your eye, the first reveal. You know, you have to have that impact… — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
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