Clear Quote by Peter Turnley

My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s…

— Roy DeCarava

Photography is a very important part of my life.

— Conrad Hall

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh…

— Nick Zinner

It’s important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to…

— Steve McCurry

My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how…

— Massimo Vitali

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

For me, the importance of photography is that you can point to something, that you can let other people see things. Ultimately, it is…

— Rineke Dijkstra

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around…

— Peter Lindbergh

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

— Alec Soth