Desks Quote by Patti Smith

My only professional ambition is to get a desk where no one can see my computer monitor other than me.

— Anonymous

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them…

— Catherine Opie

I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

— Isabel Allende

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

— Brendan Coyle

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want…

— Nan Goldin

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand

I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

— Jamie Dornan

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people…

— Anton Corbijn

I came to the realization that I can also satisfy my creative side by giving somebody else a chance. I don't have to be…

— Michael B. Jordan

I’m trying to please myself; certainly that’s a big criterion... though in a sense, I don’t take images just for myself. I take images…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

— Orlando Bloom

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while…

— Garry Winogrand