Important Quote by Diane Arbus

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most…

— Jay Maisel

The coming of the motion picture was as important as that of the printing press.

— William Randolph Hearst

The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the…

— Alexander Rodchenko

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.

— Annie Leibovitz

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of…

— Diane Arbus

I don't know what good composition is… Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness…

— Diane Arbus

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

— Diane Arbus

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

— Diane Arbus

I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will…

— Diane Arbus

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes