Considering Quote by Luc Sante

I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own…

— Gregory Crewdson

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

— Tan France

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

— Gus Van Sant

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.

— Larry Towell

A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much…

— William Eggleston

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

— William Eggleston

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

— Martin Parr

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud…

— Anton Yelchin

“Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions…

— Geoff Dyer