Basics Quote by Abelardo Morell

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it…

— Bill Henson

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

— Nikki S. Lee

I'm not particularly invested in, nor do I really care about, photography in a general sense. It's a medium that's relatively ubiquitous, readily accessible,…

— Walead Beshty

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though…

— Ezra Stoller

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless…

— Edward Weston

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been…

— Chuck Close

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

— David Hockney