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One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed. — Diane Arbus

Contrast is what makes photography interesting. — Conrad Hall

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance. — Roland Barthes

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form. — Shannon L. Alder

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema. — David Lynch

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. — Elliott Erwitt

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity. — Emmet Gowin

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second. — Marc Riboud

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose. — Leonard Freed

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture. — Diane Arbus

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my
relationship to photography. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

The only way to kill death is through photography. — Jean Cocteau

Photography is a very important part of my life. — Conrad Hall

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. — Susan Sontag

If you do not see what is around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers? — Freeman Patterson

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

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about. — David Hurn

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. — Walker Evans

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can — John Sexton

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture. — Arnold Newman

Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer. — Alec Soth

Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. — Ansel Adams

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do. — Brassai

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange. — Gregory Crewdson

In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death, — Nobuyoshi Araki

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life. — Sebastiao Salgado

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment. — Rene Burri

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. — Paul Strand

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. — Parker Stevenson

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography. — Graciela Iturbide

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else. — Man Ray

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived. — Edward Steichen

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White

The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. — Thomas Leuthard

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. — Martin Parr

Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge. — Massimo Vitali

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions. — Lee Friedlander

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing. — Susan Sontag

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them. — Helmut Newton

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! — Bill Brandt

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image. — Anne Geddes

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world. — Paul Strand

We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are." — Ansel Adams

A picture is like a prayer. — Harry Callahan

Photography is the art of not pushing the button. — Frank Horvat

Sharpness is overrated. — Keith Carter

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. — Ansel Adams

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation. — Martin Parr

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. — Matthew Modine

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. — Garry Winogrand

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. — Galen Rowell

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin

Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. — Garry Winogrand

The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset. — Catherine Opie

Nothing is ever the same twice because everything is always gone forever, and yet each moment has infinite photographic possibilities. — Michael Kenna

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people. — William Albert Allard

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality. — David B. Lentz

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

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

The important thing is not the camera but the eye. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world. — Graciela Iturbide

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud. — Diane Arbus

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'. — Minor White

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

The best zoom lens is your legs. — Ernst Haas

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. — Donatella Versace

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. — Mia Wasikowska

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language. — Lisa Kristine

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century. — Brian May

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough? — Garry Winogrand

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time. — David Travis

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn

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

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. — Keith Stanfield

All photographs aspire to the condition of being memorable - that is, unforgettable. — Susan Sontag

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ... — John Szarkowski

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it. — Dara McGrath

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare. — Bill Brandt

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer. — Bill Jay

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. — Marc Riboud

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. — Robert Frank

Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. — Mike MacDonald

As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs. — Ken Rockwell

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone. — John Szarkowski

Super 8 film is the language of silence. — Rebecca McNutt

An image is better than one thousand words — Confucius

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange