Quotes of: Frida Keyword

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

Patrick Demarchelier

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

Terry Richardson

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

Annie Leibovitz

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Fay Godwin

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

Imogen Cunningham

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Minor White

I consider myself very lucky. I'm known for photographing celebrities, but, in a nutshell, my first love is photography.

Douglas Kirkland

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

Helena Christensen

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

Fay Godwin

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

Fay Godwin

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

Fay Godwin

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Fay Godwin

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Fay Godwin

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

Helmut Newton

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

Hedi Slimane

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

Imogen Cunningham

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

Irving Penn

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

James Balog

It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.

James Balog

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

Edward Burtynsky

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

Elliott Erwitt