Gestures Quote by Alex Majoli

“She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a…

— Soheir Khashoggi

People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance…

— Mick Rock

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their…

— Patti Smith

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never…

— Duane Michals

When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have…

— William Wegman

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem…

— Sarah Charlesworth

... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years…

— Carl Mydans

“And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the…

— Takashi Matsuoka

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect, perfection is…

— Georges St-Pierre

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

— Taisen Deshimaru