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I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
— Ralph Gibson
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
— Walter J. Phillips
Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.
— David DuChemin
Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
— Shannon L. Alder
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
— George Bernard Shaw
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.
— Brandon Stanton
You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.
— Seamus McGarvey
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
— Cornell Capa
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
— Edward Weston
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[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.
— Eugene Delacroix
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.
— Henry Fox Talbot
Significance is inherent in the human body.
— Julia Kristeva
The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.
— Stephen Shore
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
— Peter Diamandis
When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.
— Vicki Goldberg
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
— Edward Weston
Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.
— Kelly E. Lindner
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
— Jean-Luc Godard
Be in love with the moments of your life.
— Matthew Knisely
The greatest moments are right in front of you.
— Matthew Knisely
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
— Will Self
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
— Julian Lennon
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
— Willi Munzenberg
I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.
— Leonard Nimoy
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
— Galen Rowell
My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.
— Devin Dygert
To photograph people is to obligate them in some way to face things they weren't expecting to.
— Susana Fortes
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
— Robert Rauschenberg
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
— Roman Jakobson
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.
— Oliviero Toscani
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
— Edward Steichen
Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.
— Lester Beall
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
— Garry Winogrand
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
— Sol LeWitt
In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.
— Harold Eugene Edgerton
I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.
— Helena Christensen
In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick ... Like an animal and a prey.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.
— Jeffrey Kluger
I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
— Ansel Adams
If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera
— Arno Rafael Minkkinen
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
— Cindy Sherman
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
— Albert Renger-Patzsch
Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting ... wonderful!
— Joe McNally
Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
— Erik Johansson
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
If you are interested in photography because you love it and are obsessed with it, you must be self-motivated, a perfectionist, and relentless.
— Mary Ellen Mark
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
— Katherine Waterston
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
— Ralph Steiner
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
— Wynn Bullock
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
— Diane Arbus
In the final analysis, photography ... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.
— Abigail Solomon-Godeau
It is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.
— John Gossage
I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.
— Raymond Depardon
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
— Harry Callahan
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
— Elliott Erwitt
It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.
— Walker Evans
Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
— Julian Barnes
