Hands Quote by Emile Gruppe

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every…

— Arnold Newman

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

— Samuel Prout

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— Don Meyer

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never…

— Duane Michals

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

— Garry Winogrand

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Alvin Langdon Coburn

The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested…

— Alexey Brodovitch

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and…

— Gisele Freund

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