I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us, which can mold us, but which can also be affected by us....

If there is no picture, there is no proof.

I don’t just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

The greatest moments are right in front of you.

They were both smiling so hard, it was surprising the frame could contain the happiness of that moment, surprising that it didn’t shatter into a million pieces, floating all over the funeral home like dust.

This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it’s just nothing. As soon...

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, ‘unity’ of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: ‘The subject,’ says one handbook for amateur photographers, ‘must be simple, free...

The Indians say to draw someone’s portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?

How can we hold onto those fleeting moments in our lives? Hold onto the moments that otherwise evaporate into the forgotten past? Or moments that become faded and morphed into our own version of reality...

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.

A recurrent question about photography is how much self expression it allows the photographer. There are two standard positions, each corresponding to a different location oh photographic skill. The opposition is neatly summed up in...

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

(…) photography opened up quite a little Pandora’s box, kiddies. (…) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated...

If Life worked on auto mode then manual mode for photography would have never existed.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off – or pimp themselves out – as art....

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as...

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

…The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész’a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they said, his images ‘spoke too much’; they made us reflect, suggested a meaning — a different meaning...

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck….life is just fine

That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of an assault by images. It is not a defect that we...

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

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.

I went in the dark room. It wasn’t filled with photograph negatives, but it was filled with nighttime.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul...

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know… Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can’t do that. I...

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by...

Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer

How promising today’s generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I’d like to see these kids...

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly...

He who seeks beauty will find it.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

Those static images have the uncanny ability to jar the memory and bring places and people back to life. They bridge the present with the past and validate as real what the passage of time...

To take photographs is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.To take...

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then...

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Original art emanates in the mind … and lessons society’s confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

I was deep in a dream about photography-walking through a strange city with buildings that stretched so high they disappeared into the clouds. And every time I took a picture of one, it shivered and...

Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I’ve always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is...

Hence the detail which interests me is not, or at least is not strictly intentional, and probably must not be so; it occurs in the field of the photographed thing like a supplement that is...

What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

If the photographer isn’t going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business...