All things Quote by Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof…

— Ernst Haas

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

— Ansel Adams

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

— Freeman Patterson

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

— Paul Strand

The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

— Sid Grossman

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag