Drawing Quote by Duane Michals

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in…

— Steve McCurry

Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public…

— Robert Adams

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I…

— Peter Turnley

You don't understand, photography is not about getting the right picture, it's about documenting your everyday life.

— Olivier Zahm

Photography is inextricably linked with life; the photographer is not invisibly behind the camera but projecting a life-attitude through the lens to create an…

— Bill Jay

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

— Inge Morath

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers -…

— Peter Beard

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.

— Graciela Iturbide

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only…

— David Hurn

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia