Composition Quote by Ansel Adams

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if…

— E. J. Hughes

For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt…

— Michael Kenna

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

— Minor White

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

— Walead Beshty

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

— Burton Silverman

As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.

— Ken Danby

When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut…

— Russell James

Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the…

— Gerhard Richter

The way I put together images is a reactive art.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I…

— George Rodger

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with…

— Umberto Eco