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With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them. — Anton Corbijn

Don' t focus on NEW - focus on authent ic. Being or iginal isn' t being new - i t 's being
you. — Scott Bourne

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

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it's about relationships. — Lynsey Addario

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

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have. — Andrew Zuckerman

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in. — Alec Soth

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture. — Eddie Adams

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers. — Bill Jay

He's got a box with a demon in it that draws pictures," said Rincewind shortly. "Do what the madman says and he will give you gold. — Terry Pratchett

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. — Sarah Sutton

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective. — Katja Michael

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

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K. — Lauren Greenfield

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. — Ansel Adams

I think photography has made us see the landscape in a very dull way - that's one of its effects. It's not spatial. — David Hockney

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. — David Sedaris

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. — Robert Genn

And for the world's orphans. A portion of this book's proceeds will go to you. — Stacy Wasmuth

A man's eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence. — Machado De Assis

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. — Gregory Crewdson

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

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

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man. — Edward Weston

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft. — John Szarkowski

It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. — Kiera Cass

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus. — Kelly E. Lindner

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand. — Bill Jay

It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent. — John Taylor Gatto

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do. — Drew Barrymore

Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. — Martin Parr

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves. — Patrick Demarchelier

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 think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives. — Jamel Shabazz

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more. — Philip Jones Griffiths

The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them? — T.A

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact. — John Szarkowski

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

Photography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. — Annie Leibovitz

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic. — Dirk Bogarde

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce. — Karl Lagerfeld

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. — Walker Evans

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility. — Janet Malcolm

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at. — Mary Mattingly

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting. — Robertson Davies

I'm glad i found photography. It's a way to connect with the world. — Susan Wiggs

- How do you make your pictures?
- I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?" "It's very much like photography really," said Dermot. "Quite a good comparison of yours. — Agatha Christie

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction. — Diane Arbus

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

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art. — David Hockney

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

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Life's the picture. But all good photographers know you gotta have the right lens. — Lamar Giles

Photography is the truth if it's being handled by a truthful person. — Don McCullin

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand. — Sally Mann

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious. — Harry Callahan

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

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

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

What's the point of getting killed if you've got the wrong exposure? — Robert Capa

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

Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. — Sebastiao Salgado

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like
applause. — A.K. Nicholas

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

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

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. — Freeman Patterson

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. — Mary Ellen Mark

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you. — Zoe Leonard

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning. — Pablo Picasso

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

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that? — David Hockney

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes. — Abraham Lincoln

It can happen anytime, anywhere. I mean, you don't have to be in front of stuff that's going to make a good photograph. It's possible anywhere. — Henry Wessel Jr.

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have. — Henry Wessel Jr.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium. — Anton Yelchin

It's really a great asset to be willing to fail and blow it, so to speak, and to be okay with just making stuff, sharing it and getting feedback. — Chase Jarvis

There is no one solution to all problems. It's the problem itself that can lead to the solution. — Jay Maisel

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. — Annie Leibovitz

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing. — Derek Ridgers

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works. — Buzz Osborne

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already. — Helmut Newton

When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses. — Stella McCartney

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air. — Walker Evans

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence. — Robert Mapplethorpe

When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh. — Andrea Modica

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money. — Martin Parr

If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle. — Josef Koudelka

Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories. — Lindsey Kelk