Best Quote by Mary Ellen Mark

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it…

— Mona Kuhn

The camera photographs what's there.

— Jack Nicholson

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

— Taylor Hackford

Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What…

— Gabriel Orozco

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not…

— Nicolas Cage

I have a genuine philosophy. I do not want to make negative pictures about people, and so I do everything I can to help…

— Douglas Kirkland

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing…

— Harold Feinstein

A camera gives you a purpose.

— Ryan McGinley

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of…

— Susan Meiselas

[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about. What you…

— Tina Barney