Martin Schoeller
[Photographer, b. 1968, Munich, Germany, lives in New York.]
Get off your phones and computers—they don’t take good pictures…. Original ideas come from experiences and the people around you.
Robert Doisneau
[Photographer, b. 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, France, d. 1994, Montrouge, France.]
Careful Henri, you’ll be making conceptual art.
(To Henri Cartier-Bresson who had forgotten to put film in his camera.)
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of the idea.
Robert Doisneau
[Photographer, b. 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, France, d. 1994, Montrouge, France.]
The best photos, the ones that are remembered, are the ones that have first passed through the person’s mind before being restored by the camera.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
[Photographer and painter, b. 1908, Chanteloup, France, d. 2004, Paris.]
What counts are the little differences. “General ideas” mean nothing. Long live the details. A millimeter makes all the difference.
Roland Barthes
[Writer, critic, and theorist, b. 1915, Cherbourg, d. 1980, Paris.]
Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is
pensive, when it thinks.
Man Ray (Emanuel Radnitsky)
[Artist, b. 1890, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, d. 1976, Paris.]
I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.
Bert Stern
[Photographer, b. 1929, Brooklyn, New York, d. 2013, New York.]
I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.
