Accepting Quote by Antoine D'Agata

When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and…

— Gavid Hood

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing…

— Harold Feinstein

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is…

— Jacques Derrida

I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come in close…

— William Klein

I encourage playfulness and experimentation with both the camera and subject matter. Sometimes there is an obvious perspective, but it is important never to…

— Michael Kenna

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

Photography is about being patient. I'm quiet, I watch the situation. I let things happen and photograph them when they happen; that's my approach,…

— Olivia Arthur

There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or…

— James Welling

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it…

— George Rodger

I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange…

— Scott Hicks