Capable Quote by Jeff Wall

The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond…

— Jean Baudrillard

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

— Edmond de Goncourt

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

— Sally Mann

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos,…

— Raymond Chandler

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and,…

— Fatty Arbuckle

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

— Penn Jillette

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

— James Mercer

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

— Mary Mattingly

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

— M. C. Escher

It comes down to risk, again and again. If you risk coming out, if you risk making pictures that aren’t good, you might discover…

— Joel Meyerowitz