The art of photography is all about capturing emotions not…

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning…

— David Travis

Photography has always been about capturing light.

— Om Malik

I like to shoot feature films because it's about capturing emotions... words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

— Rajiv Menon

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal.…

— Peter Lik

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers…

— Rondal Partridge

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate…

— Kate Morton

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and…

— Madonna Ciccone

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

— Man Ray

I take pleasure in working with the non-art photographs that reside in public archives, essentially authorless and owned by the world itself, because I…

— Michael Light

A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not…

— Nan Goldin

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how…

— Joseph Kosuth

“Photography wasn’t even considered part of the art world until fairly recently. I find it ironic that some people in the world of fine-art…

— Richard Olsenius