Interest Quote by Sigmar Polke

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply…

— Pablo Picasso

There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

— Martin Parr

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much…

— William Eggleston

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.

— Mary Ellen Mark

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

— David Hockney

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

— Paul Haggis

I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important.

— Mick Rock

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the…

— Victor Burgin

I don't want the pictures to mean things. But the implication of the image and its relationship to the people that are viewing it…

— Kerry James Marshall