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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. — Ansel Adams

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like. — Robert Rauschenberg

How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with. — Keith Carter

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

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world. — Lee Friedlander

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. — Elliott Erwitt

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. — Bruno Barbey

There is no such thing as a secret - not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and newspaper presses. — Robert Harris

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

We are in a privileged and sometimes happy position. We see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to others. — Margaret Bourke-White

The world moves fast, changing everything around us with each new day. Photography is a gift that can keep us in a moment forever, blissfully eternal. — Ali Novak

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

Photography has shaped the way I look at the world; it has taught me to look beyond myself and capture the world outside. — Lynsey Addario

In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. — James Wilson

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world. — Orson Welles

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

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live. — Clarence John Laughlin

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief. — Ansel Adams

Photography let me show other people how I saw the world. Math required me to do work that made my head hurt. — Robert Scoble

Behind the lens, I found refuge and freedom, distance and connection, an intoxicating way to tame the huge, chaotic world. — Judith Kelman

I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs. — Garry Winogrand

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

I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. — Graciela Iturbide

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer. — Marcey Jacobson

How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level. — Ansel Adams

Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better. — Andreas Feininger

Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world. — Christina Westover

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. — Eli Siegel

Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes. — Marc Riboud

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world. — Frans Lanting

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home. — Mark Denman

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it. — Andre Bazin

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

To collect photographs is to collect the world. — Susan Sontag

Photography is an empathy towards the world. — Lewis Hine

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. — Lewis Baltz

Photography is like an open book to the world. — Lisa Jones

It's almost too perfect - the poster girl for an illness in the early days of photography sees the world in black and white. — Siri Hustvedt

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. — Edward Abbey

Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you. — Bill Jay

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

I just love the world of photography. — Brooke Burke

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

Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror. — David Alan Harvey

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

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

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me. — Drew Barrymore

Photography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously. — Raghubir Singh

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it. — Martin Parr

As long as we're alive and interacting with life, the world, and the people around us, we'll have something to say. — David DuChemin

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world. — Aaron Huey

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them. — Sid Grossman

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is. — Susan Sontag

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. — Steven Pinker

Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. — Berenice Abbott

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes. — Katja Michael

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure. — H.G.Wells

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. — Arnold Newman

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

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting. — Emmet Gowin

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world ... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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

When the world asks "what was it like?" Only the photographer can say "See! — Mark Denman

Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see it. — Sahara Sanders

The world of your photography is limitless-just like your backyard. — Nick Kelsh

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing. — Sebastiao Salgado

Without my photography life would be boring. Photography adds an extra dimension to my life. Somehow it confirms my place in the world — Rennie Ellis