Looks Quote by Jacques Derrida

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

— Minor White

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're…

— Tina Barney

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try…

— Bill Brandt

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take…

— Ari Marcopoulos

Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes.…

— Roland Barthes

There is something about the way I photograph. People often say, 'Are you cross with me?' My eyes can look sort of... like a…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not…

— Antoine D'Agata