“Photography is like a river with a thousand streams that never converge.” ThousandPhotographyRiversStreams Author:Massimo Vitali
“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.” ThinkingArtArtistSecretWonderHellOughtArt IsPhotographerNot Sure Author:Todd Walker
“Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.” FilmPhotographyCamerasForgivingMediums Author:Todd Walker
“I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.” DesireAwarenessPhotographyMachinesCamerasSlaveConquer Author:Todd Walker
“Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.” PeopleWayKindLittlesTwoAbleStreetsPercentCamerasReactionsThrowingTwo WaysGemsGrabbingPortraitureFluencyTwo Way Street Author:Albert Watson
“Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.” KnowsShouldPhotographer Author:Albert Watson
“I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.” UseProcessDifficultResultsTaughtRelationCamerasCasualBotheredTextbooks Author:Gillian Wearing
“If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.” IfsWellsMightLosesForgetForget ItLiteral Author:Gillian Wearing
“When I began taking photographs I thought they might work better in magazines, in a journalistic sense, rather than as art.” ArtMightPhotographMagazinesJournalistic Author:Gillian Wearing
“... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.” LyingPossibilityParticularPhotographyPhotographerCornersAround The CornerEnigma Author:Alex Webb