Discworld Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Er, why do you need to work in a dark room, though?" he said. "The imps don't need it, do they?" "Ah, zis is…

— Terry Pratchett

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of…

— David Hurn

“From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—” “‘To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the place,’”…

— Terry Pratchett

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

— Barbara Kruger

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

— Lisette Model