Grow Quote by Berenice Abbott

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been…

— Chuck Close

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

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during…

— Ralph Gibson

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

— Paul Strand

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming…

— Edward Weston

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

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

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

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

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view…

— Ansel Adams

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art…

— Ansel Adams

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

— Shomei Tomatsu