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I love photography, and I love the art of photography.

— Helen Mirren

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and…

— Madonna Ciccone

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought…

— Sam Abell

And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no…

— William Eggleston

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as…

— Tod Papageorge

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

— Andre Kertesz

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one…

— John Ford

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

— Steve McQueen

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to…

— Graciela Iturbide

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh…

— Andy Summers

I love photography myself.

— Tarja Turunen