Composition Quote by Andreas Feininger

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

— Hideo Kojima

You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

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

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

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

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

The photographer can arrange his picture just as the painter does, only sometimes he must go about it in a different way.

— Laura Gilpin

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must…

— Yukio Mishima

The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His…

— Walter J. Phillips

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy