Compelling Quote by Bill Henson

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

I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a…

— Walker Evans

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

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

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would…

— Abelardo Morell

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

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

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

— Nikki S. Lee

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

— Andres Serrano

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us…

— Alison Jackson