I realized Quote by John Sexton

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that…

— David LaChapelle

Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate…

— John Hench

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

— Imogen Cunningham

The problem is almost everybody is just recording the world with home photographic toys, not doing metaphor or ideas. We have a photographic culture…

— James Balog

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do,…

— Yann Arthus-Bertrand

As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply…

— George A Tice

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It…

— Andy Warhol

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is…

— Lewis Mumford

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part…

— John Dykstra

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann