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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

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

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. — Nan Goldin

The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning. — John Szarkowski

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

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. — Elliott Erwitt

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 really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures. — Alex Majoli

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

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

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get. — Neil Leifer

Let the pictures do the talking! — Ken Oosterbroek

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated. — James Nachtwey

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines ... — Ilka Chase

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

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life! — John Sexton

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime. — George Barr

The world makes up my pictures, not me. — Lee Friedlander

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick. — Christopher Anderson

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka

When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies. — Diane Arbus

I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer. — Linda Palmer

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like. — Harry Callahan

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice. — Robert Frank

I don't go out looking for pictures. I go out, and if something catches my eye, that's reason enough to photograph it. — Henry Wessel Jr.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures. — Gilles Peress

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved. — Oliviero Toscani

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures. — Todd Walker

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. — Emmet Gowin

You just have to live and life will give you pictures. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money. — Sebastiao Salgado

When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of pictures. — Robert Doisneau

Pictures should never be posed. They are 'revealed' so must be accepted as they are. Left alone. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

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

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief? — Bill Jay

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

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds. — Arnold Newman

Our best pictures happen by grace. — Joyce Tenneson

Our eyes captures thousands of beautiful pictures everyday. — Pradeepa Pandiyan

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

Light field photography unleashes the power of the light, to forever change how everyone takes and experiences pictures. — Ren Ng

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. — Annie Leibovitz

Pictures can be pretty deceptive. — Gayle Forman

Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring. — Berenice Abbott

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

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

The very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me? — Abelardo Morell

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

Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you. — Chris Hondros

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

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures. — Helmut Newton