Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y. Tupac Shakur
Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y.
I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. Andre Kertesz
I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life.
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. Robert Doisneau
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them. Gene McSweeney
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments. Michael Lesy
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. Henri Cartier Bresson
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Jacques henri Lartigue
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.' Ansel Adams
'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. Dorothea Lange
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. Henri Cartier bresson
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture. William Albert Allard
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need. Ken Rockwell
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. Ansel Adams
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is... Berenice Abbott
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want. Ken Rockwell
No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. Henri Cartier bresson
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees. Paul Strand
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. Harry Callahan
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. Henri Cartier bresson
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways. Duane Michals
Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice. Minor White
I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.
Photography helps people to see. Berenice Abbott
Photography helps people to see.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. Ernst Haas
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. W. Eugene Smith
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. Diane Arbus
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. Edward Steichen
A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. Edward Weston
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. Ernst Haas
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed. Alfred Stieglitz
As I hold the future well-being of photography very dear I must see to it that these forces which militate against it be opposed and destroyed.
There?s has just been an amazing outpouring of support for Steve from the photography community, not just in Denver, but throughout the nation. Dennis Schroeder
There?s has just been an amazing outpouring of support for Steve from the photography community, not just in Denver, but throughout the nation.
I saw the children playing with a bag lying in front of a photography store and suddenly it exploded. Ali Mahmud
I saw the children playing with a bag lying in front of a photography store and suddenly it exploded.
First of all I work out, second of all the Director of Photography on our film is amazing and I told him if any cellulite shows I will kill him! Denise Richards
First of all I work out, second of all the Director of Photography on our film is amazing and I told him if any cellulite shows I will kill him!
Having a picture in the show has given me more confidence and motivated me to explore different types of photography. Andrew Lapiska
Having a picture in the show has given me more confidence and motivated me to explore different types of photography.
Digital photography used to be male-dominated; all images ended up in cameras and on hard drives, and the guy would take care of it. Larry Lesley
Digital photography used to be male-dominated; all images ended up in cameras and on hard drives, and the guy would take care of it.
[The single-use camera doesn't threaten digital photography because it's] really just an on ramp to a digital image, ... Scan it in and you have a digital image. After that, you are more likely to move into the digital camera market. Bruce Chizen
[The single-use camera doesn't threaten digital photography because it's] really just an on ramp to a digital image, ... Scan it in and you have a digital image. After that, you are more likely to move into the digital camera market.
All these artists are very different visually and they're all using photography in different ways. The common thread that connects each of the artists is the exploration of identity. Catherine Gleason
All these artists are very different visually and they're all using photography in different ways. The common thread that connects each of the artists is the exploration of identity.
One of the reasons some of the other agencies dislike the way we work, we have been willing to hire anyone, people without previous photography experience. Kelly Davis
One of the reasons some of the other agencies dislike the way we work, we have been willing to hire anyone, people without previous photography experience.
I like photography that is out of the ordinary. The ones that stick out to me the most and hold my attention are the ones that I choose. Christina Fernandez
I like photography that is out of the ordinary. The ones that stick out to me the most and hold my attention are the ones that I choose.
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography. Jewish Museum
The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography.
I came to Ryerson in 2001 for a diploma in arts, but I was interested in photography at the time and didn't even know new media existed. When I found out about the department and the digital revolution, I just fell into it. Jennifer Myers
I came to Ryerson in 2001 for a diploma in arts, but I was interested in photography at the time and didn't even know new media existed. When I found out about the department and the digital revolution, I just fell into it.
He taught me everything I know about photography. Any interest I have in it came from him. Hisham Eissa
He taught me everything I know about photography. Any interest I have in it came from him.
Private Pictures: photography from Arizona collections. Annie Leibovitz
Private Pictures: photography from Arizona collections.
What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists. Lee Brumbaugh
What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists.
Photography as art has made lots of inroads to the home. People are now more willing to spend the money for photography for the home. Steve Berman
Photography as art has made lots of inroads to the home. People are now more willing to spend the money for photography for the home.
By using this technology, it's like taking a new look at photography. That's what makes it a very interesting exhibit. Catherine Gleason
By using this technology, it's like taking a new look at photography. That's what makes it a very interesting exhibit.
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. Bill Wyman
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Twenty to 30 percent of my work is now related to photography and writing. Chris Linder
Twenty to 30 percent of my work is now related to photography and writing.
The ads had to be effective. There's no photography so there has to be physical descriptions. Richard Newman
The ads had to be effective. There's no photography so there has to be physical descriptions.
I've always been into documentary photography and spot news is one of my favorites. After 11 years in the business I was in the right place at the right time. Michael Kirby
I've always been into documentary photography and spot news is one of my favorites. After 11 years in the business I was in the right place at the right time.
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. Alfred Stieglitz
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
I enjoyed being around computers and I enjoyed doing new things on computers, and digital photography was one [of these new things]. The class is going to have [many] of the same experiences I had. Fred Gallagher
I enjoyed being around computers and I enjoyed doing new things on computers, and digital photography was one [of these new things]. The class is going to have [many] of the same experiences I had.
This summer we're having a photography class. Pam Johnson
This summer we're having a photography class.
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. Alberto Korda
The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.
There are many countries in which analogue photography is still very viable. Guido Krebs
There are many countries in which analogue photography is still very viable.
Photography is my passion. Alfred Steiglitz
Photography is my passion.
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Alfred Stieglitz
In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
There is a lot of back end work in photography that clients never see. There have been wonderful photographers who go out of business because they focus on the art and forget about the business. Stephen Morris
There is a lot of back end work in photography that clients never see. There have been wonderful photographers who go out of business because they focus on the art and forget about the business.
We chronicled the events in our lives in photography. Delilah Sue Brashear
We chronicled the events in our lives in photography.
I have talked to both the prosecutors and the defense. They do not have any objections to photography of the defendant's face. Bill Holt
I have talked to both the prosecutors and the defense. They do not have any objections to photography of the defendant's face.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Robert Frank
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, ... Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different. Hiroshi Sugimoto
It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, ... Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for consumers. Pierre Schaeffer
We are just beginning to unleash the true potential of what digital photography can provide for consumers.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators. Ansel Adams
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Edvard Munch
I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. Edward Steichen
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.
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