Accounts Quote by David Hockney

Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

— Edmundo Desnoes

The observer is the observed.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not…

— Antoine D'Agata

The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

— A. D. Coleman

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— Susan Meiselas

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the…

— Don McCullin

I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on…

— Mona Kuhn

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.

— Andre Kertesz

I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes, to be…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks.…

— William Albert Allard

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz