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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.
— Ansel Adams
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
— Ernst Haas
My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
— Mathew Brady
Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.
— Henry Wessel Jr.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
— Nan Goldin
Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
— Robert Rauschenberg
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.
— Larry Towell
[photography] ... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.
— Oliver Sacks
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
— Sarah Sutton
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
The pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.
— Edward Weston
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
— Terry Richardson
I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I've lost.
— Nan Goldin
My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.
— Solange Knowles
I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I'll paint my kids. And I'll occasionally do some photography.
— Jim Lee
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.
— Jamel Shabazz
If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.
— Richard Avedon
My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.
— Lauren Greenfield
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
— Rosie O'Donnell
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
— Margaret Bourke-White
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
— Edward Weston
God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.
— Dewitt Jones
My father did advertising photography.
— Andreas Gursky
My parents were not one for photography, and my dad earned the nickname 'Henry VII' for his ability to slice the heads off of subjects for his snaps
— Mark Barrowcliffe
I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
— George A Tice
Photography is a very important part of my life.
— Conrad Hall
Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn't been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me.
— Ida Lokas
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
— Sebastiao Salgado
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
— Edward Weston
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.
— Giles Duley
The world makes up my pictures, not me.
— Lee Friedlander
People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.
— David Hockney
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
— William Eggleston
I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves.
— Elliott Erwitt
I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it.
— Russell James
There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.
— Justine Kurland
Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.
— Christophe Agou
My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.
— Bill Jay
I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.
— Douglas Kirkland
What inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet.
— Jillian Barberie
I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.
— Anton Corbijn
A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
— Annie Leibovitz
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
— Sigmar Polke
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
— Herb Ritts
My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I don't know if I can articulate how I feel. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would make it here.
— Keith Carter
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
— David Suchet
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
— Alfred Stieglitz
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.
— Ansel Adams
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
— Diane Arbus
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.
— Keira Knightley
Photoshop and Lightroom help me transform my photos into what my heart felt, but my camera couldn't quite capture!
— Marius Vieth
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
— Robert Breault
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.
— Ruth Bernhard
My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.
— Eliot Porter
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
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
— Keith Carter
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
— Garry Winogrand
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
— David Bailey
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
— Sebastiao Salgado
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
— Oscar Wilde
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
— Ernst Haas
My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
— Keith Stanfield
Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
— Mia Wasikowska
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
— Gia Coppola
And I'm a pretty avid photographer, I've been into photography for years now, so I try to spend some of my free time with that.
— Danny McBride
I never went to a photography school, which was my saving grace,
— Duane Michals
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.
— Steve McCurry
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
My sympathies have always been with the everyday people ... the center of my photography.
— Jerome Liebling
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
— Alberto Korda
Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
— Paul Strand
Photography was my choice of weapons.
— Gordon Parks
I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
— Joan Fontcuberta
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.
— Jack Welpott
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.
— Jason Sudeikis
Photography is my passion.
— Alfred Stieglitz
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.
— Imogen Cunningham
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time.
— Jessica Lange
In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.
— William Albert Allard
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not ... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.
— John Gutmann
My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.
— Gjon Mili
Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously.
— Raghubir Singh
I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.
— Sebastiao Salgado