Photography Quote by Alec Soth

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the…

— Frank Horvat

The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's…

— Alec Soth

I sometimes photograph my poems and get obsessive about this and spend a lot of time squatting over them but it's a bit demeaning…

— Tim Key

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to…

— Alec Soth

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can…

— Gerardo Suter

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

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

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott