Eye Quote by Bernd Becher

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

— August Sander

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the…

— David Hockney

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and…

— Ernst Haas

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it…

— John Szarkowski

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

— Dziga Vertov

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

— Michael Kenna

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

— Gilles Peress

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

— Frank Horvat

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

— Chuck Close