Amount Quote by Edwin Land

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an…

— Sadakichi Hartmann

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free…

— Paul Caponigro

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern…

— Andreas Feininger

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as…

— Andreas Feininger

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a…

— William Mortensen

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his…

— Alexey Brodovitch

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should…

— Pablo Picasso