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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
— Roland Barthes
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
— David Lynch
The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.
— John Szarkowski
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
— Edmundo Desnoes
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
You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.
— Seamus McGarvey
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
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
— Robert Genn
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
— Edward Weston
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
— Paul Theroux
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
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
The only way to kill death is through photography.
— Jean Cocteau
Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke
Photographs shape the past in our own image.
— Chloe Thurlow
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
— Edward Weston
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
— Thomas Ruff
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,
— Nobuyoshi Araki
Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
— Martin Parr
Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.
— David Alan Harvey
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 just gets us out of the house.
— William Eggleston
I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind.
— Erik Johansson
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible.
— Thomas Struth
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
— Deborah Copaken Kogan
Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
— Donatella Versace
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
To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.
— Edward Weston
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
— Cindy Sherman
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
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
— Albert Renger-Patzsch
The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.
— Helmut Newton
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
— Ansel Adams
The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
— Walker Evans
People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
— Edward Weston
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
— Minor White
Photography is the art of not pushing the button.
— Frank Horvat
If there were lies to photography, I figured, there was truth too, truths we'd never see if not through the dispassionate glass eye of a camera.
— Richard E. Gropp
I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.
— Trent Parke
Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
— Rebecca McNutt
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
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
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
— Andreas Feininger
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
— Ralph Steiner
The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself ...
— Freeman Patterson
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
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
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.
— Graciela Iturbide
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
The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?
— Garry Winogrand
She had the most beautiful awkwardness
— Brandon Stanton
I just love the world of photography.
— Brooke Burke
I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.
— Joyce Tenneson
Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...
— John Szarkowski
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos.
— Mike MacDonald
I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.
— Thomas F. Wilson
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
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt