Obsession Quote by Graciela Iturbide

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release…

— Douglas McCulloh

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock…

— Galen Rowell

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

— Nikki Giovanni

“Sameness... the new ‘unique’. So photographers seem to be flocking toward simple, easy to understand ‘solutions’ instead of flocking toward hard work, development of…

— Don Giannatti

... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we…

— Brassai

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,…

— Aaron Siskind

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator…

— Barbara Kruger

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

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 is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

— Luc Delahaye

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

— Marc Riboud