Candid Quote by D. A. Pennebaker

Photography is a lot like telling a large predatory cat what to do-while an audience of people you can't see watches you.

— Dorothea Lange

The nature of photography has always resisted that temptation of interpretation. I look, and what I see looks back at me.

— Gerard Malanga

I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around…

— Grant Mudford

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly…

— Walter Lippmann

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family… It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

— Lincoln Kirstein

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

— Annie Leibovitz

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

— Lewis Baltz

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies… Now…

— Catherine Opie

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar