Decision Quote by Gregory Heisler

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of…

— Wynn Bullock

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

— Carine Roitfeld

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them…

— Kim Weston

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

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

— Mary Ellen Mark

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank

The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old way, the…

— Mark Klett

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to…

— Aaron Ruell

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

— Greg Gorman