Animal Quote by Robert Doisneau

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of…

— D. H. Lawrence

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come…

— Jacob Aue Sobol

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

— Eugene Atget

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy…

— Sam Abell

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it…

— George Rodger

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

— Paolo Veronese

I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting…

— Art Wolfe