A photographed is a secret about a secret. The more it tells, the less you know.
Diane Arbus
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photos out of focus are experimentation,
one hundred photos out of focus are a style.
Author Unknown
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do — that was one of my favorite things about it,
and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Diane Arbus
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Richard Avedon
The word ‘art’ is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one’s work.
I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
Roland Barthes
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.
Duane Michals
People say photographs don’t lie, mine do.
David LaChapelle
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde