Existence Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe

Photography was so perfectly suited to my sensibility and situation, it gave me a voice, a kind of crazy, out-of-whack voice, at the beginning,…

— Abelardo Morell

The fight for photography became my life.

— Alfred Stieglitz

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 is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course…

— Jamel Shabazz

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.

— Jessica Lange

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

— Daido Moriyama

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

— Francesco Carrozzini

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

— Giles Duley

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first…

— Rachel Morrison

I was always interested in photography because it makes a picture.

— David Hockney

I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

— Scoot McNairy

I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it…

— Cole Sprouse