Famous quotes by Photographers

"One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy"

Man Ray, Photographer

"It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them"

Man Ray, Photographer

"I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive"

Man Ray, Photographer

"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals, motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human!"

Man Ray, Photographer

"When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I was poor. When you're poor, you work, and when you're rich, you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I don't know what love means"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice, nasty stories. I don't know?"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I don't resent anything"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him"

Man Ray, Photographer

"When you do portraits professionally, it's not a desire, it's for money"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, ugly men"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important"

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer

"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"I see no reason for recording the obvious"

Edward Weston, Photographer

"Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true"

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Photographer

"Montana is a state of mind. It's a place where you can let your soul breathe"

Gretchen Powers, Photographer

"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game"

Tim Page, Photographer

"Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors"

W. Eugene Smith, Photographer

"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself"

James Van Der Zee, Photographer

"What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

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