Failing Quote by Arthur Tress

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

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

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman

I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around…

— Grant Mudford

Photography is away of feeling, of touching, of loving what you have caught on film, and that is captured forever even when you forget…

— Anonymous

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often…

— Todd Hido

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

— Sam Abell

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