Photograph Quote by Ansel Adams

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can…

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

— Rebecca Solnit

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it…

— Bill Henson

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it.…

— Ralph Gibson

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

— Nikki S. Lee

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate…

— W. Eugene Smith

The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

— Eliot Porter

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium…

— Irving Penn

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not…

— Garry Winogrand