Accompany Quote by Arthur Rothstein

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

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

— Garry Winogrand

The word “photography” can be interpreted as “writing with light” or “drawing with light.” Some photographers are producing beautiful photographs by drawing with light..…

— Philippe Halsman

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

— Wright Morris

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you…

— Galen Rowell

Photographs are believed more than words; thus they can be used persuasively to show people who have never taken the trouble to look what…

— Eliot Porter

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

— Bill Brandt

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.

— Edmundo Desnoes

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

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