Achieve Quote by Bill Brandt

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

Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

— Berenice Abbott

What matters is not what you photograph, but why and how you photograph it. Even the most controversial subject, if depicted by a sensitive…

— Andreas Feininger

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard…

— Bill Brandt

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

— Willy Ronis

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

— Nigel Barker

[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If…

— Sarah Moon

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his…

— Chris Marker

I think that emotional content is an image's most important element, regardless of the photographic technique. Much of the work I see these days…

— Anne Geddes

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or…

— Galen Rowell