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I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the… — Anne Geddes
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. — Helmut Newton
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an… — Galen Rowell
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness… — Julia Margaret Cameron
His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are… — Richard Gere
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and… — Unknown Author
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this,… — Bill Brandt
One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. — Diane Arbus
I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because there… — Joel Meyerowitz
Then I thought, Whoa. If there are no photographs, then there is no history. I'm going to get in there. I'm going to make these… — Joel Meyerowitz
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where… — Robert Adams
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you… — Richard Avedon
I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time… — David Hurn
I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope… — Cornell Capa
I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a… — Elliott Erwitt
As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never… — Elliott Erwitt
It's nothing but a matter of seeing, thinking, and interest. That's what makes a good photograph. And then rejecting anything that would be bad for… — Andreas Feininger
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part… — Richard Avedon
There's no particular class of photograph that I think is any better than any other class. I'm always and forever looking for the image that… — Minor White
If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment… — Margaret Bourke-White
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude. — Susan Sontag
Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and pointless.… — John Szarkowski
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand
I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe.… — Garry Winogrand

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