Agents Quote by Berenice Abbott

Photography is painting with light

— Miroslav Tichy

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

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

The substance of painting is light.

— Andre Derain

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter;…

— Andreas Feininger

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

— Charles Sheeler

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically, I can say…

— Gerardo Suter

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process.…

— Stephen Shore

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

— Alphonse de Lamartine