Collapse Quote by Arnold Newman

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas;…

— Gilles Peress

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

— Sebastiao Salgado

A camera has interesting ideas of its own.

— John Szarkowski

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

— Ansel Adams

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

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson