Baggage Quote by Graeme Base

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

— Mario Testino

You've got to deal with how photographs look, what's there, not how they're made.

— Garry Winogrand

I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility of doing…

— Gregory Crewdson

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

— Chuck Close

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

— Richard Avedon

The list of photographs that I am missing while I sit on airport runways, teach classes or spend hours in the studio makes my…

— Brian Ulrich

I'm not interested in doing the same kind of picture over and over again. I pose problems for myself. Sometimes they are aesthetic problems…

— Stephen Shore

It's important to realize that the images are everywhere, not just where you want or expect them to be.

— Jay Maisel

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

— Paul Gauguin

It's in my nature to want every image of me to be authentic but at the end of the day as a model, I…

— Denise Bidot

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time…

— Garry Winogrand

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark