Consulting the rules of composition before taking a…

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a…

— Edward Weston

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a…

— Edward Weston

“To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.”

— Edward Weston

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

— Eugene Atget

Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will…

— Michael Kenna

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

— Susan Sontag

“A photograph is like a smile it's of no use unless you share it.”

— Joseph Frazz

People aren't really looking at the result when taking a picture on an iPhone. And they don't print it. So to me, it's almost…

— Tina Barney

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

— Todd Hido

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

— E. W. Howe

My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize…

— Loretta Lux

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole.…

— Susan Meiselas

There are times that I have to say no to a photograph, like at 8:30 A.M. when I'm out to buy bread and I…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and…

— Dennis Hopper

“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the…

— Graham Greene