Enthusiasm Quote by Robert Heinecken

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to…

— Justine Kurland

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects…

— Dennis Hopper

If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how…

— Joyce Tenneson

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and…

— Roger Ballen

In every successful still photographic project that I have completed, there has always been a turning point in the story where I felt that…

— Mary Ellen Mark

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas…

— Lee Friedlander

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole.…

— Susan Meiselas

It wasn't even a matter of what I was photographing, as what had happened to me in the process. When I discovered that I…

— George Rodger

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its…

— Roland Barthes

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

— Denise Bidot

In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a…

— Wynn Bullock

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

— Bob Anderson