Book Quote by Wolfgang Tillmans

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos,…

— Raymond Chandler

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I…

— Shepard Fairey

There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic…

— Edgar Degas

Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because while it…

— Curtis Hanson

I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

— Martin Parr

Pictures are an escape. They should be bigger than life. In the same way, celebrities provide an escape from the mundane. They are photographed…

— David LaChapelle

I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on…

— Garry Winogrand

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really…

— Jeff Koons

It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is…

— Wolcott Gibbs

Are you for real? It's so hard to tell, from just a magazine. Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells, look what that…

— Van Halen

Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the…

— Edmundo Desnoes