“I have to remember everyday to keep pushing myself and putting myself in uncomfortable situations. To not stop looking and to keep exploring beauty. I've been working 12 years now at a 24/ 7 pace. I've got to always remember not to become too comfortable for fear of becoming irrelevant. You've got t…”— Ryan McGinley, ryanmcginley.com
“It's so much easier to edit a photo that already looks good; it's so much easier to caption a photo that already has meaning.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“How to gain an Instagram following: take shitty photos for a year. How to get better at photography: stop caring about followers.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“There’s always an expectation from brands that you will have an Instagram presence, but I don’t personally care because I’ve yet to see that it translates into anything real for me or the company.”— Kristiina Wilson, glossy.co
“There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“I believe that a photo session should be shorter and I do a lot of work up front, so a subject can come in quickly and be done.”— Annie Leibovitz, fastcocreate.com
“In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image.”— Annie Leibovitz, fastcocreate.com
“Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are.”— Susan Sontag, amazon.com
“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”— Susan Sontag, amazon.com
“I simply use what is there. It's not an accident that Edward Weston took most of his pictures with a six-dollar lens that he bought at a junk store. Good photographers usually have a very simple technique.”— Jock Sturges, amazon.com
“Anytime I photograph a person, there is loss implicit in the image, because the next time I photograph them, they will have changed.”— Jock Sturges, amazon.com
“You know what a camera does for me? It gives me permission to stare.”— Catherine Opie, ryanmcginley.com
“Use the camera to take what you know that others don’t, what you can access that others can’t, and the people or things you connect with, to construct your own world.”— Ryan McGinley, ryanmcginley.com
“For a photographer, fog evens everything out. The land and the sky become an even exposure. Sometimes when I’m shooting and it’s not foggy, one part of the shot will go bright white to get the detail of another part, but with fog you’re not blowing out any parts of the composition — the sky is as im…”— Noah Kalina, nytimes.com