Compact Quote by Alex Webb

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

— Fay Godwin

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own.…

— Gordon Parks

The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.

— Wright Morris

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman

We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique,…

— Piet Zwart

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an…

— Andreas Feininger