Concerned Quote by Patti Smith

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down…

— Sam Abell

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then…

— Sam Abell

The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

— Ansel Adams

“I've always felt that the formal structure of a photo, its composition, was just as important as tje subject itself... You have to eliminate…

— Brassaï

“The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world”

— Jeannette Winterson

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

“I glanced over all the magazine and newspaper articles I could find, but the difference between the image I’d invented and the person I…

— Haruki Murakami

Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)

— Slim Aarons