Competent Quote by Chuck Close

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have…

— Chuck Close

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and…

— John Szarkowski

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

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.

— Mario Giacomelli

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

— Lisette Model

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

— Jerry Saltz

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

— Anne Geddes

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

In order to be a successful Photographer, you must possess both Vision and Focus neither of which have anything to do with your eyes

— Kevin Russo

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

— Anders Petersen