Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Votes: 5
Dorothea LangePhotography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. Votes: 3
Sebastian SmeePhotography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving. Votes: 3
Christian BoltanskiPhotography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world. Votes: 3
Bruno BarbeyPhotography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust. Votes: 3
Henri Cartier-BressonPhotography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 3
Susan SontagPhotography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. Votes: 3
Duane MichalsIt's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography. Votes: 3
Thomas LeuthardPhotography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set. Votes: 3
Henri Cartier-BressonPhotography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits. Votes: 3
Pierre-Auguste RenoirPhotography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. Votes: 3
Arthur RothsteinPhotography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Votes: 3
Jacques-Henri LartigueThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. Votes: 3
Dorothea LangePhotography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself. Votes: 3
Sune Rose WagnerPhotography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Votes: 3
Walter SickertPhotography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see. Votes: 3
Berenice AbbottPhotography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't. Votes: 3
David HockneyPhotography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. Votes: 3
Mia WasikowskaPhotography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. Votes: 3
John RothensteinStreet Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it... Votes: 3
Thomas LeuthardPhotography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand. Votes: 3
John Paul CaponigroPhotography, to me, is the dewdrop that reflects my inner and outer worlds simultaneously. Votes: 3
Raghubir SinghPhotography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried! Votes: 3
Bill BrandtPhotography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. Votes: 3
William J. MitchellPhotography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything. Votes: 3
Anton CorbijnPhotography's like this baby that needs to be fed all the time. It's always hungry. Votes: 3
Annie LeibovitzThe Photography is a chopper which in the eternity seizes the moment which dazzled it. Votes: 3
Henri Cartier-BressonPhotography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature. Votes: 3
Heinrich HeinePhotography, not soft gutless painting, is best equipped to bore into the spirit of today. Votes: 3
Edward WestonPhotography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes. Votes: 3
Marc RiboudPhotography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light. Votes: 3
Kevin RussoPhotography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed. Votes: 3
Garry WinograndPhotography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. Votes: 3
Judith ButlerPhotography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. Votes: 3
Nigel DennisPhotography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. Votes: 3
Berenice AbbottPhotography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me. Votes: 3
Don McCullinPhotography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well. Votes: 3
Jerry SaltzPhotography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Votes: 3
Ansel AdamsPhotography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze. Votes: 3
Alfred StieglitzPhotography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul. Votes: 3
Inge MorathPhotography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble. Votes: 3
John GossagePhotography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards. Votes: 3
Charles SheelerPhotography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. Votes: 3
Paul ValeryPhotography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do. Votes: 3
Diane ArbusPhotography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. Votes: 3
Alexander RodchenkoPhotography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems. Votes: 3
Martha RoslerPhotography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. Votes: 3
Elliott ErwittPhotography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime. Votes: 3
Jeffrey KlugerPhotography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures. Votes: 3
Todd WalkerPhotography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. Votes: 3
Matthew ModinePhotography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are. Votes: 3
David DoubiletOne should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. Votes: 2
Dorothea LangeThe single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! Votes: 2
Ansel AdamsFor me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. Votes: 2
Henri Cartier-BressonNo place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Votes: 2
Robert AdamsIn photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Votes: 1
Alfred StieglitzThe invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Votes: 0
Laszlo Moholy-NagyI love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling. Votes: 0
Ryan LewisIn my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. Votes: 0
William Albert AllardI love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonIn many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography. Votes: 0
Harold Eugene EdgertonI am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. Votes: 0
William LandayThere is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop Votes: 0
Tyra BanksEveryone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography. Votes: 0
Martin ParrPeople think photography is about photographing. To me, itâs about relationships. Votes: 0
Lynsey AddarioTo some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia. Votes: 0
Rene BurriNowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography. Votes: 0
Mary Ellen MarkThe creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography. Votes: 0
Jerry UelsmannAny familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. Votes: 0
Martha RoslerThere is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography. Votes: 0
Manuel Alvarez BravoI'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. Votes: 0
Mia WasikowskaI started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Votes: 0
Brendan FletcherIn the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun. Votes: 0
Abigail Solomon-GodeauPainting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school. Votes: 0
Dianna AgronThe photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light. Votes: 0
Laszlo Moholy-NagyIt's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite. Votes: 0
Kiera CassThe fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing. Votes: 0
Edward RuschaPhotographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. Votes: 0
Ralph SteinerIdeally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. Votes: 0
John BaldessariI believe that photography loves banal objects, and I love the life of objects. Votes: 0
Josef SudekA lot of the photography I'm doing and thinking about is directed at Instagram. Votes: 0
Stephen ShoreThe really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films. Votes: 0
Anton CorbijnI am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography. Votes: 0
Sebastiao SalgadoI love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. Votes: 0
Gianni VersaceI don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work. Votes: 0
Robert BarryI talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand. Votes: 0
Bill JayI was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background. Votes: 0
Gia CoppolaI have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. Votes: 0
Hanneli MustapartaIn the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman. Votes: 0
Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.My sympathies have always been with the everyday people... the center of my photography. Votes: 0
Jerome LieblingThere is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThere are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste Votes: 0
Helmut NewtonThe photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about. Votes: 0
Garry WinograndIt's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby. Votes: 0
Elliott ErwittDon't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography? Votes: 0
Nobuyoshi ArakiIn the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. Votes: 0
James WilsonI have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn. Votes: 0
Pablo PicassoYou don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography. Votes: 0
Seamus McGarveyI turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture. Votes: 0
Sarah CharlesworthI love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. Votes: 0
Sarah SuttonThere's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup. Votes: 0
Freeman PattersonHe was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography. Votes: 0
John SextonAs you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently. Votes: 0
Annie LeibovitzI don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history. Votes: 0
Gilles PeressTo me photography can be simultaneously a record and a mirror or window of self-expression. Votes: 0
Eikoh HosoeThere is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. Votes: 0
Galen RowellDon't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGenerally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. Votes: 0
Herb RittsProbably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. Votes: 0
John BaldessariMy interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture Votes: 0
Parker StevensonMy interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. Votes: 0
Parker StevensonThis industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireIn the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world. Votes: 0
Graciela IturbideIf there is a good thing about photography, it is that it can be easily enjoyed. Votes: 0
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of SnowdonIf I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. Votes: 0
Jessica LangeTo make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. Votes: 0
Friedrich DurrenmattMachines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. Votes: 0
Paul GauguinI believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance. Votes: 0
Sarah MoonI wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Votes: 0
Jean-Marc BustamanteIn photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonI was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts. Votes: 0
Thomas F. WilsonIn photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time. Votes: 0
Thomas RuffWe rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know. Votes: 0
Robert AdamsI love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative. Votes: 0
Diandra AsbatyWhat inspires me still: travel, art, photography, my kids, the places I haven't been to yet. Votes: 0
Jillian BarberieWhether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface. Votes: 0
Christophe AgouThe secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler. Votes: 0
Walker EvansWhat makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. Votes: 0
John BergerThe clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. Votes: 0
Antonia FraserThere is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world. Votes: 0
Luc DelahayeThere is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops. Votes: 0
David HockneyThe other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art. Votes: 0
Sol LeWittI always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. Votes: 0
Bruce GildenAs Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound. Votes: 0
Roland BarthesFor me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. Votes: 0
Wynn BullockI love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. Votes: 0
Winona RyderRichard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. Votes: 0
Donatella VersaceThe problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. Votes: 0
Gabriel LippmannI used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve. Votes: 0
Lewis BaltzI don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better. Votes: 0
Nan GoldinNow people ask whether photography is art, but I think the question is of absolutely no interest. Votes: 0
Peter LindberghI don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is. Votes: 0
Matthew ModineOf course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much. Votes: 0
Sebastiao SalgadoI have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Votes: 0
Edvard MunchI try to use photography to move people to action to save the wildlife in our beloved ocean. Votes: 0
Tom GruberI worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film. Votes: 0
Ori GershtI try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing. Votes: 0
James NachtweyOf all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time. Votes: 0
Henri Cartier-BressonOne reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object. Votes: 0
Cindy ShermanAs every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master. Votes: 0
Robert GennI don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal. Votes: 0
Horst P. HorstI didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. Votes: 0
Steven SebringI'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography. Votes: 0
Ryan McGinleyIn the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death, Votes: 0
Nobuyoshi ArakiI use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see. Votes: 0
Trent ParkeAs much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure. Votes: 0
Julian LennonIt's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage. Votes: 0
Val KilmerIt is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop Votes: 0
Auguste RodinI like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well . Votes: 0
Zoe KravitzPhotography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject. Votes: 1 Steven Pinker
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. Votes: 1 Georgia May Jagger
I love photography, and I love the art of photography. Votes: 4 Helen Mirren
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. Votes: 4 William Eggleston
I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography. Votes: 1 Eliza Doolittle
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form. Votes: 1 Neil Postman
It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about. Votes: 4 Helen Levitt
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. Votes: 1 Duane Michals
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography. Votes: 2 Martin Parr
Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. Votes: 2 Fay Godwin
Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer. Votes: 3 Spike Lee
For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate. Votes: 3 Giles Duley
Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. Votes: 1 Layne Staley
Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation. Votes: 2 Patrick Demarchelier
All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography. Votes: 2 Lauren Greenfield
I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I find the world of fine art photography to be pretty silly and pretentious. Votes: 3 Michael Light
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. Votes: 1 Drew Barrymore
If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic. Votes: 3 Jamie Chung
My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music. Votes: 1 Nikki Sixx
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. Votes: 3 Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection. Votes: 1 Georgina Chapman
Photography obviously lends itself so well towards fashion. It's capturing that moment and that inspiration, and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection. Votes: 1 Georgina Chapman
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. Votes: 2 Ansel Adams
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side. Votes: 1 Graeme Le Saux
Photography is just light remembering itself. Votes: 4 Jerry Uelsmann
My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you. Votes: 1 Pedro Almodovar
I'm a big believer in practical and location photography. Votes: 3 Jonathan Nolan
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out. Votes: 1 Richard MacDonald
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. Votes: 1 Hanneli Mustaparta
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design. Votes: 1 Anton Corbijn
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx. Votes: 3 Aaron Siskind
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. Votes: 1 Sam Abell
If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Votes: 3 Bill Jay
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. Votes: 3 John Baldessari
I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession. Votes: 1 Alfred Stieglitz
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. Votes: 2 James Gray
So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. Votes: 1 Sophia Bush
So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. Votes: 1 Sophia Bush
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people. Votes: 1 James Wilson
While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students. Votes: 1 Douglass North
Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful. Votes: 2 Larry Towell
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. Votes: 1 Chris Hondros
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid. Votes: 2 Sean Durkin
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. Votes: 1 Douglas Rushkoff
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event. Votes: 4 Drew Carey
Street Photography is like fishing. Catching the fish is more exciting than eating it... Votes: 6 Thomas Leuthard
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre. Votes: 3 Eve Arnold