Amount Quote by Sarah Moon

I began to realize that photographs, these still images, have a tremendous power to move your soul. They can change your life by what…

— Graham Nash

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was…

— William Klein

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but…

— Joan Fontcuberta

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

— Robert Adams

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth.…

— Gerhard Richter

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

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give…

— Rod Steiger

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

— George L. Carlson

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

— Roy Hodgson