Ability Quote by Ansel Adams

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show…

— Zoe Leonard

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that,…

— Ansel Adams

If what I see in my mind excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph.

— Ansel Adams

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

— Lynne Ramsay

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

— Robert Collier

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The…

— Susan Sontag

You find photographs in so many different ways - from chance encounters, from looking at your negatives, from the way the light hits your…

— Sylvia Plachy

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein