Bored Quote by Ernst Haas

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than…

— Ernst Haas

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann

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

The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger…

— Wallace D. Wattles

To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

— Douglas Crimp

Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it…

— John Ruskin

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to…

— Duane Michals

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of…

— Jean Baudrillard

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a…

— Ansel Adams

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look…

— Ernst Haas