Happenings Quote by Garry Winogrand

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

— Wynn Bullock

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it,…

— Saul Leiter

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of…

— Chuck Close

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

— John Paul Caponigro

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

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

— Sally Mann

I came from a background of photography so I look at details and visuals, and I see things in pictures or signs.

— Lynne Ramsay

Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it…

— Elliott Erwitt

You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene…

— Sam Abell

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

— William Eggleston

I'm just interested in what makes a photograph.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

— Annie Leibovitz