A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music. — Fred Picker Copy Share Image
As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love. — Lawrence Blume Copy Share Image
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it. — Raymond Depardon Copy Share Image
I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography. — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.” — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
In life, the best moments are those that your camera always failed to capture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. — Michael Spiller Copy Share Image
I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I love taking photos of all of my family, but Harper is really cute to photograph, and my brother Romeo because of… — Brooklyn Beckham Copy Share Image
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by… — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
I take portraits for people, I like doing that kind of stuff. It's a different way to collaborate and to see other… — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm… — Anthony Warlow Copy Share Image
“I take pictures of everything anyway, even though they’ll mostly turn out crap on the phone, because taking pictures is just what… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
“Making photos that are as capable as the human eye is a very big deal. And when using HDR, the extended dynamic… — Harold Davis Copy Share Image
I approached photography the only way that I knew how to approach anything: as a job. I would get up, photograph all… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
“Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Looking at a photograph and wishing you could re-live that moment over and over again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
“Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out. — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer. — Linda Palmer Copy Share Image
Am I accurately reporting what I see in such a blossom? The answer is no ... and yes. — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime. — Tyler Shields Copy Share Image
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![“[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)” quote by Pierre Mac Orlan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8de/pierre-mac-orlan-59102_art_documentary-photography-is-unwittingly-l_2407575.png)
![“One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer…” quote by Jason Sudeikis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/jason-sudeikis-20098_albums_one-of-my-oldest-friends-from-kansas-his_3077970.jpg)
