Body Quote by Julian Schnabel

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same…

— Thomas Ruff

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by…

— Douglas Huebler

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full…

— Nikolay Semyonov

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The…

— Bernd Becher

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

— Gemma Chan

Micro-looking processes that are human are what I was interested in. How can you use the camera to mime the way that we look?…

— RaMell Ross

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

— Conrad Hall

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're…

— Sigmar Polke

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz

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

— Garry Winogrand

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag