Flats Quote by David Hockney

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

— Ansel Adams

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

— Annie Leibovitz

I believe that photography can only reproduce the surface of things. The same applies to a portrait. I take photographs of people the same…

— Thomas Ruff

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent…

— Ansel Adams

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

A good photograph is one that can't be repeated.

— Harry Benson

I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph…

— John Sexton

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

— Norman Parkinson

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

— Walker Evans