Chance Quote by Brassai

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

— Guy Le Querrec

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.

— Edward Weston

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he…

— Andreas Feininger

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

— John Stuart Mill

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

— Graciela Iturbide

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting…

— Bill Brandt

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

— Katsuki Sekida

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs,…

— Andreas Feininger

The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more than a…

— Francis Galton

“Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions…

— Geoff Dyer