Edward Steichen
[Photographer and curator, b. 1879, Luxembourg, Germany, d. 1973, West Redding, Connecticut.]
Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.
Marc Riboud
[Photographer, b. 1923, St.-Genis-Laval, France, d. 2016, Paris.]
Instinctively, I feel that good photographs come from being surprised.
Raymond Depardon
[Photographer and filmmaker, b. 1942, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France, lives in Paris.]
The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.
Jean Paul Sartre
[Writer and philosopher, b. 1905, Paris, d. 1980, Paris.]
Here I am, bent over the keyhole; suddenly I hear a footstep. I shudder as a wave of shame sweeps over me. Somebody has seen me.
William Wegman
[Artist, b. 1943, Holyoke, Massachusetts, lives in New York.]
I get so confused about life photography art.
Aaron Siskind
[Photographer, b. 1903, New York, d. 1991, Providence, Rhode Island.]
There are two forces operating in my work: pleasure and terror.
Francesca Woodman
[Photographer, b. 1958, Denver, Colorado, d. 1981, New York.]
Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.
André Kertész
[Photographer, b. 1894, Budapest, Hungary, d. 1985, New York.]
You don’t see the things you photograph, you feel them.
