Alertness Quote by Allen Ginsberg

The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.

— Andre Kertesz

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not…

— Walker Evans

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

— Mervyn Levy

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern…

— Andreas Feininger

Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by…

— W. Eugene Smith

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

— Ben Maddow

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming…

— Edward Weston

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's…

— Edward Weston

At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form…

— Nancy Newhall