Beautiful Quote by Andrea Modica

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of…

— Gregory Crewdson

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm…

— Eugene Richards

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often…

— Todd Hido

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott

I have a pathological fear of getting my picture taken.

— Neko Case

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

— Ari Marcopoulos

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I…

— Katy Grannan

Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not…

— Max Kozloff

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people…

— Anton Corbijn