Belief Quote by Aaron Siskind

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers,…

— Aaron Siskind

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

— Duane Michals

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit…

— Harry Callahan

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased…

— Zoe Leonard

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

— Graciela Iturbide

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr

I think most serious photographers understand that there's this large gap between the world and how the world looks through a photograph.

— Stephen Shore

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

— Aaron Huey