Eye Quote by Franz Kafka

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it…

— Gisele Freund

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

— Saul Leiter

The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an…

— Andreas Feininger

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around…

— Grant Mudford

Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does…

— Greig Fraser

Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around…

— Peter Lindbergh

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter