Mania Quote by Leon Golub

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what…

— Graham Nash

I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it…

— Cole Sprouse

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

It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to…

— Lauren Wasser

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may…

— Richard Avedon

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

Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely…

— Andrea Modica

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

— Ben Maddow

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I have gradually confused photography with life.

— Jerry Uelsmann