Ambition Quote by Anton Corbijn

The fight for photography became my life.

— Alfred Stieglitz

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of…

— Justine Kurland

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at…

— Mario Testino

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

I have a deep love and respect for children and I cannot imagine photographic life without them playing a major part. I hope that…

— Anne Geddes

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

— Allan Sekula

One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971…

— John F. Kerry

I've spent my life capturing beautiful images. And whether in wilderness or in the downtown of a giant city, I find connections, universal rhythms,…

— Louis Schwartzberg

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what…

— Graham Nash

I think Diana Vreeland recognized the passion and the energy I had. I stayed at Harper's Bazaar for two years, until I met my…

— Polly Allen Mellen

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures…

— Fay Godwin