Discussion Quote by Garry Winogrand

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

A photograph records both the thing in front of the camera and the conditions of its making... A photograph is also a document of…

— James Welling

My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in…

— Tod Papageorge

I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this…

— Torbjørn Rødland

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

— Italo Calvino

If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

— John Berger

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

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

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different…

— Tibor Kalman

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin