Depiction Quote by David Hockney

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

— Constantin Brancusi

You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

— David Hurn

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

— Cindy Sherman

You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it…

— George Rodger

The fundamental issue is one of emphasis: you are not a photographer because you are interested in photography...The reason is that photography is only…

— David Hurn

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t…

— Emmet Gowin

... photography is just a medium. It's like a typewriter. Photography as an art doesn't interest me an awful lot; as a participant, though…

— Ezra Stoller

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

— Elliott Erwitt

...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

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

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

— Saul Leiter