If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
What I was doing for those assignments wasn't always directly tied to what I was doing for myself, but it gave me… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged.… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
“In my stolen photographs -- for the photographer must be a thief, he must steal instants of other people's time to make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I try not to let the material aspects of different cultures distract me from getting to the essence of the person I'm… — Mario Sorrenti Copy Share Image
In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the… — Philip Jones Griffiths Copy Share Image
If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer,… — Chris Marker Copy Share Image
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever really felt comfortable with photography as my sole medium. But it wasn't really until I became a… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
“I am not a photographer, not even an amateur photographer: too impatient for that: I must see right away what I have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter,… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
“Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what's happening and, finally, manoeuvre yourself… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the… — Larry Clark Copy Share Image
Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium.… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?' I don't even ask the… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Over the past two decades, the boundary between photography and other media like painting, sculpture, or performance has become increasingly porous. It… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
“More climbers die during the descent than on the way up.” Karakaredes seems to be considering this. After a minute he says,… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
To be honest I listen to the female opinion on my photos. If all the girls in the office choose a certain… — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people… — Jack Lowden Copy Share Image
“Whether you have an Iphone, Android, Canon, Nikon, or Panasonic, it won't matter if you don't have it on you. My point… — Eric Dahlin Copy Share Image
“You can look at a photograph, years later, of a place that is vivid in your memory, and find that it looks… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
For this very reason I refuse all the tricks of the trade and professional virtuosity which could make me betray my career.… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
“What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
There was a time, right up until the end of the Second World War and beyond, when white people in Europe thought… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
