Adversity Quote by Ernst Haas

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

— Edward Steichen

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain…

— Harry Callahan

The persistent problem in photography is how to look at it.

— Ben Maddow

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology…”

— Prerna Sharma

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

“Photography is not purely a mechanical process. You need to know how to look, where to point the camera, and when to press the…

— Andy Karr

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to…

— Ernst Haas

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

— Eadweard Muybridge

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make…

— Galen Rowell

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia