Essence Quote by Albert Renger-Patzsch

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

— John Szarkowski

Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation

— Paul Strand

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

...a photographer must be aware of and concerned about the words that accompany a picture. These words should be considered as carefully as the…

— Arthur Rothstein

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

— Minor White

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson