Quotes of: Frida Keyword

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

Imogen Cunningham

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.

Irving Penn

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

Edward Burtynsky

The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.

Brian Skerry

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

Galen Rowell

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

Helena Christensen

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

Hanneli Mustaparta

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

James Nachtwey

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Jock Sturges

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Joel Sternfeld

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

David Allee

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Diane Arbus

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

David Bailey

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

Douglas Kirkland

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

David LaChapelle

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

Duane Michals

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

Jim Goldberg

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

Andy Goldsworthy

And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

Alison Jackson

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Annie Leibovitz

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

Annie Leibovitz