Abandon Quote by Agnes Varda

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world,…

— Jim Goldberg

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

— Frank Auerbach

If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one…

— Thomas Struth

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With…

— Pablo Picasso

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of…

— Edward Ruscha

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time…

— Garry Winogrand

I always had the feeling, even when I started, that my photography was meant to be archival in nature. Sort of like wine, I…

— Gerard Malanga

I love the history of photography and one process has always replaced another. However, very, very few have disappeared.

— Keith Carter

Stop editing your pictures so much. What if you go missing?

— Celeste Hartman

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that…

— Sebastiao Salgado

“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers of our…

— B.E. Scully

When it's time to let go, I don't look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself…

— Wong Kar-wai