Challenges Quote by Michael Kenna

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from…

— Abelardo Morell

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking…

— Robert Mapplethorpe

(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the…

— Andreas Feininger

There's always a time in any series of work where you get to a certain point and your work is going steadily and each…

— Sally Mann

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

— Stephen Curry

Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And…

— David Burnett

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt…

— Michael Kenna

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world,…

— Jim Goldberg

Taking the photograph is the easiest part for me

— Duane Michals

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston