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

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

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

The best images are the ones that retain their strength and impact over the years, regardless of the number of times they are viewed. — Anne Geddes

When you look at nature, you see a hidden mystery that gives a special flavor to the photograph. — Abbas Kiarostami

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

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty. — George A Tice

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

If you can capture the element of surprise, you're way ahead of the game. — Jay Maisel

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning. — David Doubilet

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 see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure. — Edward Weston

My father did advertising photography. — Andreas Gursky

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. — Paul Theroux

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard. — Bill Jay

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher. — John Szarkowski

Photographs shape the past in our own image. — Chloe Thurlow

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. — Thomas Ruff

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

I shutter to think how many people are underexposed and lacking depth in this field. — Rick Steves

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer. — David Hurn

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me. — Joyce Tenneson

Photography repeats itself unconsciously and unavoidably, producing stereotypes that then are repeated ad infinitum. — Andy Grundberg

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography. — Katherine Waterston

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

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa

The photographer both loots and preserves, denounces and consecrates. — Susan Sontag

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today. — William Eggleston

The best photographs are made by the best people. — Morley Baer

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908) — Auguste Rodin

Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can. — John Sexton

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

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST. — Aman Verma

The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field. — Bill Jay

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me. — Helena Christensen

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. — Ernst Haas

Photography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. — Edward Weston

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity. — David Hurn

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive. — Garry Winogrand

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, 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

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

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

The best zoom lens is your legs. — Ernst Haas

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

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. — Bruce Gilden

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot. — Jon Oringer

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them. — Wynn Bullock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharpness is overrated. — Keith Carter

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 use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. — Trent Parke

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner

Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. — Andreas Feininger

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. — Georges Didi-Huberman

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

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. — Pablo Picasso

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

I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that. — Georgia May Jagger

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. — Wynn Bullock