All Quotes

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

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

Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
‐‐ Don McCullin

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
‐‐ Alison Jackson

Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
‐‐ Brian Skerry

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.
‐‐ Platon

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
‐‐ Berenice Abbott

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.
‐‐ Berenice Abbott

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
‐‐ Duane Michals

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
‐‐ Duane Michals

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
‐‐ Andre Bazin

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

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

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
‐‐ Peter Lindbergh

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

Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
‐‐ Ren Ng

Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
‐‐ Hedi Slimane

Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
‐‐ Joel Sternfeld

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

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.
‐‐ Angela Cartwright

Photography helps people to see.
‐‐ Berenice Abbott

Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
‐‐ Honoré Daumier

Photography 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.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.
‐‐ Lee Thompson Young

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

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
‐‐ Edward Steichen

Photography is a very important part of my life.
‐‐ Conrad Hall

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
‐‐ Aaron Siskind

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
‐‐ Andy Goldsworthy

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
‐‐ Garry Winogrand

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
‐‐ Saul Leiter

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
‐‐ Matthew Modine

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

Photography is an accident.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
‐‐ Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear.
‐‐ Martin Parr

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
‐‐ Patrick Demarchelier

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
‐‐ David Bailey

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
‐‐ Elliott Erwitt

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
‐‐ Bill Brandt

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have some sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.
‐‐ Chuck Close

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

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
‐‐ Jean-Luc Godard

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
‐‐ Duane Michals

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

Photography must be integrated with the story.
‐‐ James Wong Howe

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.
‐‐ Georgina Chapman

Photography of any living being, according to Taliban rule, was illegal. So when I went to Afghanistan, immediately I was worried about photographing people. But it was what I wanted: to show what life was like under the Taliban, specifically for women.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario