Marc Riboud
[Photographer, b. 1923, St.-Genis-Laval, France, d. 2016, Paris.]
The target of our line of sight is reality, but our framing can transform it into a dream.
Paul Klee
[Artist, b. 1879, Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, d. 1940, Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland.]
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
David LaChapelle
[Photographer, b. 1968, Connecticut, lives in New York.]
People say photos don’t lie. Mine do. I make mine lie.
Oscar Wilde
[Writer, b. 1854, Dublin, d. 1900, Paris, France.]
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
Saul Leiter
[Photographer, b. 1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, d. 2013, New York.]
If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.
Nikki S. Lee
[Photographer, b. 1970, Kye-Chang, Korea, lives in New York.]
People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.
Robert Adams
[Photographer and writer, b. 1937, Orange, New Jersey, lives in Astoria, Oregon.]
Artists sometimes claim that they work without thought of an audience—that they make pictures just for themselves. We are not deceived. The only reward worth that much effort is a response, and if no one pays attention, or if the artist cannot live on hope, then he or she is lost.
Philip Jones Griffiths
[Photojournalist, b. 1936, Rhuddian, Wales, d. 2008, London.]
The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.
