My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Richard Avedon

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
J. Carter Brown

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.
Leroy Chiao

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
John Sexton

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.
Markus Wolf

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Ambrose Bierce

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
W. Eugene Smith

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
David Bailey

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
Chuck Close

The camera can photograph thought.
Dirk Bogarde

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
Penelope Lively

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
Marshall McLuhan

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.
Stephen Sprouse

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.
Jock Sturges

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Fay Godwin

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.
Lauren Hutton

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.
John Sexton

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
Garry Winogrand