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Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.
— Shannon L. Alder
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[photography] ... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.
— Oliver Sacks
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph.
— Abbas Kiarostami
Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.
— Katja Michael
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.
— Ben Shahn
My father did advertising photography.
— Andreas Gursky
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
— Thomas Ruff
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
— Mia Wasikowska
Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.
— William Albert Allard
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.
— Josef Koudelka
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
— Georges Didi-Huberman
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
— Andreas Feininger
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
— Ralph Steiner
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
— Aaron Siskind
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
— Trent Parke
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
— Steve McCurry
I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.
— Wynn Bullock
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
— Donatella Versace
That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
— Dorothea Lange
The best zoom lens is your legs.
— Ernst Haas
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
— Minor White
It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.
— Paul Caponigro
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
— Graciela Iturbide
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
— Eric Clapton
The important thing is not the camera but the eye.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.
— Francesca Woodman
Sharpness is overrated.
— Keith Carter