Matter Quote by Andy Summers

Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is.

— Jon Hamm

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and…

— Gisele Freund

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

— Olivier Zahm

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.

— Alex Majoli

No one can really explain in a rational way what makes a good photograph or a bad photograph... This is why the art world…

— David Wojnarowicz

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do…

— Sebastiao Salgado

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

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it…

— Mona Kuhn