Concepts Quote by Ansel Adams

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

— Brassai

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the…

— Arthur Rothstein

(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the…

— Andreas Feininger

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of…

— William Albert Allard

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen