What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive photographer with honesty, sympathy, and understanding, can be transformed into an emotionally rewarding experience. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Know - how is worthless unless guided by know - why and know - when. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective. — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter;… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Photographers - idiots, of which there are so many - say, "Oh, if only I had a Nikon or a Leica, I could make… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
