Attention Quote by Alexey Brodovitch

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel…

— Robert Frank

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He…

— Edwin Land

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting…

— Bill Brandt

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never…

— Duane Michals

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard…

— Bill Brandt

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

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

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