Appropriate Quote by Susan Sontag

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn’t it?” “It’s very much like photography really,” said Dermot. “Quite a good comparison of yours.”

— Agatha Christie

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and…

— John Steinbeck

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

— Ruth Bernhard

Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to…

— Joel Sternfeld

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

— Richard Misrach

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

— Weegee

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.

— Matthew McConaughey

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified.…

— Gerhard Richter

Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into…

— Jean Cocteau

I saw a man walk into my camera viewfinder from the left. He took a pistol out of his holster and raised it. I…

— Eddie Adams