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“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have
caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after
you have forgotten everything.”
—Aaron
Siskind
“Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting
in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you
see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
—Elliott
Erwitt
“Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.”
—Jacques-Henri
Lartigue
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less
you know.”
—Diane
Arbus
“Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create
the illusion of being in an interesting world.”
—Steven
Pinker
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
—Dorothea
Lange
“Photography is a way to shape human perception.”
—James
Balog
“Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated
to make it really work.”
—Martin
Parr
“Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get
the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves.”
—Patrick
Demarchelier
“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
—Henri
Cartier-Bresson
“Photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second,
of the significance of an event.”
—Henri
Cartier-Bresson
“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It
is a creative art.”
—Ansel
Adams
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you
put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
—Garry
Winogrand
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
—Jean-Luc
Godard
“Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and
take many, many pictures.”
—Elliott
Erwitt
“Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or
a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.”
—W.
Eugene Smith
“Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
—Alfred
Stieglitz
“Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which
sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.”
—Andy
Goldsworthy
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
—Edward
Steichen
“Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost
anybody can be competent. It’s the hardest medium in which to have some
sort of personal vision and to have a signature style.”
—Chuck
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