Comment Quote by Alfred Stieglitz

I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs,…

— Andreas Feininger

Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight' photographs of…

— Joel Sternfeld

There's no such thing as a bad photograph.

— John Baldessari

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less…

— Susan Sontag

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

— Graciela Iturbide

“I glanced over all the magazine and newspaper articles I could find, but the difference between the image I’d invented and the person I…

— Haruki Murakami

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

— Peter Doig

“The picture is bad because the photographer was poor. I took the picture myself, and you can clearly tell I have no money.”

— Jarod Kintz

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course…

— Ansel Adams