Photograph Quote by Bill Jay

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct…

— Ellsworth Kelly

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that…

— Frank Gohlke

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach…

— Martin Parr

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

— Saul Leiter