Drudgery Quote by Berenice Abbott

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I…

— Diane Arbus

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

— David Byrne

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing…

— Martin Parr

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

— Daido Moriyama

I had no idea how I wanted to get into photography, but I just knew I wanted to do it.

— Daniel Berehulak

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

I try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean.

— Tom Gruber

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their…

— Ben Shahn

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how…

— Massimo Vitali

Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where…

— Laurel Nakadate

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that…

— Mary Ellen Mark