Hard Quote by Helmut Newton

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

— Garry Winogrand

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy…

— Sam Abell

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

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

When I look at photographs, I couldn't care less "how."

— Garry Winogrand

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

— Ruth Bernhard

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

— Damian Loeb

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

— Samuel Prout

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often…

— Todd Hido

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

— Chris Jordan

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

— Sally Mann