Donald McCullin
[Photographer, b. 1935, Finsbury Park, London, lives in Somerset, England.]
Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
Cindy Sherman
[Artist, b. 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, lives in New York.]
I want that choked-up feeling in your throat which maybe comes from despair or teary-eyed sentimentality: conveying intangible emotions.
James Nachtwey
[Photographer, b. 1948, Syracuse, New York, lives in New York.]
If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.
Donna Ferrato
[Photographer, b. 1949, Waltham, Massachusetts, lives in New York.]
Not for me the uninvolved wanderer with a camera—some invisible alien, coldly holding a tin box without a heart. My camera has feelings.
W. Eugene Smith
[Photographer, b. 1918, Wichita, Kansas, d. 1978, Tucson, Arizona.]
What use is having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?
Ishiuchi Miyako
[Photographer, b. 1947, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, lives in Tokyo.]
One must be a bit cold to be the one taking photos.
Paolo Pellegrin
[Photographer, b. 1964, Rome, lives in Paris.]
We photographers live in a constant state of schizophrenia because of what we see, what we feel and what we have to overcome.
Roland Barthes
[Writer, critic, and theorist, b. 1915, Cherbourg, d. 1980, Paris.]
If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it.
