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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
Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's beingyou. — Scott Bourne
The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?
— James Nachtwey
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything.
— Diane Arbus
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
— Isabel Allende
Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze.
— Alfred Stieglitz
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
— Edward Steichen
Working on photography is working on oneself.
— Irving Penn
My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.
— Ari Marcopoulos
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
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Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.
— Martha Rosler
It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.
— David Sedaris
I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.
— Clement Greenberg
We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others.
— Margaret Bourke-White
Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!
— John Sexton
Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
— Edward Weston
A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.
— Edward Steichen
It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.
— Jerry Uelsmann
It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
— Val Kilmer
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.
— Richard Misrach
Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner ... ?
— Francesca Woodman
Maybe that's why I love photography, which is, when you think about it, the ability to sinfke out a detail and focus on it.
— Emily O'Beirne
The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.
— Jacob Collins
To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
— Archibald Primrose
For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)
— Wilhelm Rontgen
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[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
— James Nachtwey
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
— Brooks Atkinson
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.
— Steve McCurry
In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.
— Jack Welpott
Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
— Matthew Modine
One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.
— Annie Leibovitz
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
— Mary Ellen Mark
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
— Walker Evans
I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
— Harry Callahan
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.
— Robert Adams
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
— Ori Gersht
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
— Irving Penn
The school should teach a class on deciphering obscure images in bad photography. Amanda's photos could make up the textbooks.
— Jordan Elizabeth Mierek
I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.
— Don McCullin
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.
— Rene Burri
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 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
Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.
— Bill Jay
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
— Garry Winogrand
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
And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.
— Diane Arbus
Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.
— Marcel Duchamp
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
Just put on the lens and go.
— Miroslav Tichy
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