Alive Quote by Richard Avedon

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

— Nigel Barker

“I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces; whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them. I…

— Paul Strand

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

— Pablo Picasso

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive…

— Andreas Feininger

In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.

— Bill Brandt

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a…

— Ansel Adams

I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.

— Paul Strand

When you're in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs…

— Monica Bellucci

The purpose of all my photos is to capture the power of nature and convey it in a way that inspires someone to feel…

— Peter Lik

“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard