The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
“The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,” — Peter Meredith Copy Share Image
I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be, — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
My camera is the best travel companion instead of my boyfriend — Angela Jennifer Aroemrasni Copy Share Image
A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth. — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
That's what I look for in models: Someone who can tell a story and has a presence in front of the camera. — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession. — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Andy was an offbeat personality, shy and insecure. The whole reason for taking a camera with him wherever he went was because… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Recall our discussion of the pendulum. Its position at a given instant does not fix its subsequent behavior. Suppose a photograph shows… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists.… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
