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The world makes up my pictures, not me. – Lee Friedlander

I’ve never not been sure that I was a photographer any more than you would not be sure you were yourself. I was a photographer, or wanting to be a photographer, or beginning—but some phase of photographer I’ve always been. – Dorothea Lange

People say photos don’t lie. Mine do. I make mine lie. – David Lachapelle

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them. – Diane Arbus

I’m not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it’s not an object, I work in history, I’m a storyteller. – Sebastião Salgado

What is photography other than collecting ? – Hilla Becher

A picture just means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary. – Andy Warhol

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it. – Cindy Sherman

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at. – Jean-Marc Bustamante

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality. – Rineke Dijkstra

Use Photography as a Weapon! – John Heartfield

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. – Annette Messager

There is no particular reason to search for meaning – William Eggleston

Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be – Sherrie Levine

Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second – Jean-Luc Godard

Women war photographers had to fight on two fronts: the bombs, and the men – Martha Rosler

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs – Milan Kundera

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object – Cindy Sherman

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it’s exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception – Gabriel Orozco

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy - Anaïs Nin