We’ve lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it’s just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster. – Gerhard Richter
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
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century. – Gabriel Lippmann
I don’t think there is a movie that I’ve been on that I wasn’t sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker. – Haskell Wexler
What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what’s around you. That’s what photography does for me. – Graeme Le Saux
I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn’t know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck. – Henry Winkler
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. – Graeme Le Saux
Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. – Herb Ritts
When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn’t using my skills productively. I gave up photography – I walked away from it completely – and started doing care work. – Giles Duley
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
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling. – Hanneli Mustaparta
Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. – Herb Ritts
I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later. – Helena Christensen
I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career. – Giles Duley
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
Drones ply the liminal space between the physical and the digital – pilots fly them, but aren’t in them. They are versatile and fascinating objects – the things they can do range from the mundane (aerial photography) to the spectacular – killing people, for example. – John Battelle
I paint in acrylic and sometimes in oil. Sometimes I’ll paint my kids. And I’ll occasionally do some photography. – Jim Lee
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography. – Jeff Bridges
I don’t think there’s any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent. – Imogen Cunningham
Over the last few millennia we’ve invented a series of technologies – from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone – that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. – Joshua Foer
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn’t go to it out of hunger. – Irving Penn
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that. – Jimmy Chin
