Art Quote by Gerhard Richter

Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance…

— Michael Langford

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture…

— Henri Matisse

When I'm editing, it's such a tough call, and I get challenged on it all the time. You've got to go with your gut…

— Russell James

Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct…

— Berenice Abbott

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

— Heinrich Heine

What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human…

— Zoe Leonard

For me anyway when a photograph is interesting, it's interesting because of the kind of photographic problem it states - which has to do…

— Garry Winogrand

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you…

— John Gutmann

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

Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad…

— Tina Modotti

I pay a lot of attention to composition in my art, and I will often shift myself or change a pose according to the…

— Sasha Pivovarova