Active Quote by Alain de Botton

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

— Andres Serrano

I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it.…

— Ralph Gibson

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

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

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

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

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

— Hans Haacke

I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people.…

— Frank Capra

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

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

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of…

— Geoffrey Batchen

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy