Dreams Quote by Alexey Brodovitch

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

— Nigel Barker

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover…

— Bill Brandt

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and…

— Susan Sontag

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or…

— Galen Rowell

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

— Emmet Gowin

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

— Tony Benn