Any Quote by Martin Parr

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

— Frederick Sommer

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

— Al Goldstein

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy…

— Sam Abell

Photos have the real task of bringing exposure to places that we otherwise don't have much awareness of.

— Rachel Morrison

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing…

— Martin Parr

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

— Maurizio Cattelan

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light,…

— Damien Hirst

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

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

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

— Garry Winogrand

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin