Common Quote by Sam Abell

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

— Tan France

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

— Sam Abell

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem…

— Sarah Charlesworth

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

— Garry Winogrand

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

— Garry Winogrand

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 like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.

— Douglas Kirkland

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

— Harold Feinstein

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

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

— Minor White

I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,…

— Susan Meiselas

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting