Accepting Quote by Berenice Abbott

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and…

— Wynn Bullock

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

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

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 more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

— Ansel Adams

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me…

— Erik Johansson

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I…

— Annie Leibovitz

Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature…

— Duane Michals

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

— Martin Parr