Artist Quote by Ernst Haas

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this…

— Paul Outerbridge

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

— Frank Horvat

“A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time”

— Marjan van den Belt

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

— August Sander

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and…

— Ralph Gibson

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative…

— Andreas Feininger

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

— James Balog