Bases Quote by Douglas McCulloh

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I…

— Peter Turnley

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

— Jesse Jackson

In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out to be…

— Celeste Ng

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now.... But I am not particularly an advocate of the…

— Robert Smithson