Mechanic Quote by Fred Picker

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

— Aaron Baddeley

While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek…

— Dawoud Bey

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

— Ken Rockwell

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

— Marcey Jacobson

The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and…

— Edwin Land

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

— Mary Mattingly

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from…

— Abelardo Morell

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented…

— Xaviera Simmons

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

— Catherine Opie

Whenever I am tired of making photographs of drawings, I make drawings of photographs.

— Vik Muniz

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

I'm actually not so sure what I'm hoping to find making photographs. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually,…

— Anton Corbijn