Ability Quote by Freeman Patterson

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.

— Freeman Patterson

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something…

— Stephen Shore

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?

— Christopher Paolini

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.

— William Herschel

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent…

— Paul Valery

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

— Dan Brown

You learn to see by practice. It's Just like playing tennis, you get better the more you play. The more you look around at…

— Eliot Porter

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

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