Distance Quote by Alex Prager

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

“Vision is that original spark that was ignited within you and made you pick up a camera to capture whatever it is you saw,…

— David duChemin

I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up…

— John Loengard

“That's about when people realized that this wasn't some kind of show, an optical illusion or something to stand around and point at. They…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal…

— Jerome Liebling

“Those eyes were compelling to the point of distraction.”

— Pippa DaCosta

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

— Ford Madox Ford

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz

“There is a strange sensation often experienced in the presence of an audience. It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes that…

— William Pittenger

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

— Paul Theroux

Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it…

— Elliott Erwitt