Familiar Quote by Freeman Patterson

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal…

— Bill Brandt

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

— Robert Heinecken

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs,…

— Andreas Feininger

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

— Fred Picker

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

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