Affirmation Quote by Gisele Freund

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

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

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.

— Duane Michals

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

— Brigitte Bardot

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every…

— Arnold Newman

Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and…

— John Szarkowski

Photography isn't for people to take pictures of beautiful people or things. It's for capturing raw emotions in the eyes of the beautiful people…

— Jillian Rowe