Accomplishment Quote by Albert Renger-Patzsch

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

— Beaumont Newhall

“A photograph is usually the photographer’s subconscious attempted to possess the photographed moment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they…

— Ruth Bernhard

“Even the most amazingly talented photographer could not have been able to catch splendid photos without the amazing talent of nature which creates splendid…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

— John Stuart Mill

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— Edward Weston

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

— John Berger

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

“The results showed that the more times people were exposed to a photo of a completed action, the more often they thought they'd completed…

— David DiSalvo