"There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need." “The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot” - Werner Herzog

 

"First of all, you have to have a bad camera. If you want to be famous, you must do something more badly than anybody in the entire world." - Miroslav Tichy

 

“Taking pictures is a lot like sexual foreplay. Even though sex ends in an orgasm, it is not just a fuck. A lot of my pictures are foreplay but the best ones are orgasms.” – Araki

 

"I was out drinking with an avant-garde photographer who I respect and love. He warned me, spitting out his words: “Only releasing one work a year? You're going to be betrayed by photography.” Indeed, in photography, self-innovation is achieved through the repeated act of shooting and spewing out what you shoot. A healthy performance of photography should be one in which the continuous act of vomiting determines your next subject and alters your perspectives." - Takanashi Yutaka

 

"Each time we strive towards totality, we realize that we lack it. Nothing is ever total. Photographs are proof of the abiding incompleteness of the world; they are the result – the excreta – of a performance by the body heading for the unattainable nirvana. And it is because photos are excrement that I am drawn to them, affirming that photography is nothing but ourselves and our world." - Taki Koji

 

“I believe that photography is neither creation nor memory, but documents. The act of shooting a photograph is not something abstract. It is always concrete. No manipulation to make simple things complicated through conceptualization. Only the real I encountered through the medium of the camera is here in my photographs.” - Takuma Nakahira

 

“You know why your pictures are no fucking good. Because they don’t describe the chaos of life.” – Garry Winogrand

 

"The fact that an endless number of my photographs are reproduced photographs – by which I mean that I've used a world that has been copied once already, as a fragment of reality, by copying it again – shows that I find those people who live in a world of pixels more lively than those who are alive and whom I can see in front of my eyes.' - Daido Moriyama

 

"I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not ‘photographing’, in order to keep the eye in practice.” – Josef Koudelka

 

"Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling." - William Klein

 

“Pathos is a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness. It evokes a deeply felt pain, and is an inherent part of the human condition; we all know we will eventually die. To reveal this emotion in a photograph is to get to the core of our existence” - Roger Ballen.

 

"Soon enough this will all be less than a memory" - Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

 

"I think I came alive when I started photography." - Harry Callahan

 

"I used to be very particular about the rules and conventional ways of photography. I followed strictly the composition rules, such as the rule of third; I made sure my horizon was level and not in the middle of the frame but 1/3 or 2/3 of it; I set my settings carefully before each take. Then one day I told myself, ‘You are not a professional photographer or a master, why you bother about all those things? Just shoot anyway and anyhow you like lah!’ I am now happily snapping the way I enjoy doing." - Choo Nyuk Lin

 

"I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it." Martin Parr

 

"MOST musicians I know don't just play music on Saturday night," Henry Wessel explained. "They play music every day. They are always fiddling around, letting the notes lead them from one place to another. Taking still photographs is like that. It is a generative process. It pulls you along." - Henry Wessel

 

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