A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of…

— Harry Callahan

Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an…

— Tim Walker

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

— Steve McCurry

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

— John Szarkowski

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

Because we see reality in different ways, we must understand that we are looking at different truths rather than the truth and that, therefore,…

— John Szarkowski

I photographed the entire thing in color because to photograph it in black and white would be to keep it as a tragedy. Because…

— Joel Meyerowitz

I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more…

— Ralph Gibson

I appreciate photographs which celebrate harmony. I don't particularly want to look at chaos. I see enough of that at home.

— Bill Jay

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument…

— Eve Arnold

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a…

— Sebastiao Salgado