Aggressive Quote by Max Vadukul

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

— Nigel Barker

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK…

— Elliott Erwitt

When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.

— Gillian Wearing

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty…

— August Sander

My work has gotten a bit strange. I do consulting, and people ask, "Could you give me your opinion on this, and could you…

— Garance Dore

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

— Nobuyoshi Araki

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

— Duane Michals

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do…

— Rosanna Arquette

I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the…

— Mario Testino