Quotes by Photographers

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. W. Eugene Smith

World Does Camera Fit Just Conveniently Format

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world. Walead Beshty

Work Art World Changed Physically Through Making Art World Interested

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up. Walead Beshty

Relationship Between Material Up Image

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. William Albert Allard

Photography Inseparable See Composition Color

All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse. William Albert Allard

Eyes Personality Better Worse Brains Need

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important. William Eggleston

Important Looking Nothing Way More Had Democratic Around Notion Less

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me. William Eggleston

Art Me Photography People Photographs Days Like Doing Edward Very Essentially Which Interest Landscapes Early Early Days

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world! William Eggleston

World Digital Think Analog Digital World About Because Am Much

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? William Klein

You Think Obscene Support Know How Monarchy

I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship. William Klein

Made First Feeling Tremendous Liberated Kinds About Kinship Had Countries Like Been Years Celebrated Festival Festivals Which Film Earlier

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.' William Klein

Fashion Home Me Wife Back Say Would Photographs No Idea No Interest Take Had Studio Idea Like Go Interest Season

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets. William Klein

Like Up Grew Streets

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America. William Klein

Down Well Go America Being

I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. William Klein

Army Thanks Dreamt Paris Always Becoming Artist Happened

I like film. I'm old fashioned. William Klein

Old Like Old-Fashioned Film

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. William Klein

Book First Had New Camera York New York Lenses Two

I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come in close and also make a commentary on what's being photographed: 'This is a photo, this is my point of view.' William Klein