Animal Quote by Debra Granik

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

— M. C. Escher

Photography is a process

— Nigel McKain

For me, making a photograph is mostly an intellectual process of understanding people or cities and their historical and phenomenological connections. At that point…

— Thomas Struth

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

— Theodore Robinson

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

— Garry Winogrand

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive…

— Robert Doisneau

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it…

— Josh Trank

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson