Art Quote by Chris Marker

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover…

— Bill Brandt

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting…

— Robert Adams

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for…

— George Santayana

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock…

— Galen Rowell

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

— Nigel Barker

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those,…

— Chris Hondros

“A photograph captures a bygone moment in time which is impossible to be reproduced and which can create history. It can transfer emotions through…

— Biju Karakkonam Nature and Wild life Photographer

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

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

— Tony Benn

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

— Garry Winogrand