Calling Quote by Graham Goode

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

— Daido Moriyama

You have to bring to the photograph a prejudice about something, and I'm prejudiced against farmers who tie dead animals on fences. Therefore, I…

— Rondal Partridge

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

— Dorothea Lange

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

— Ansel Adams

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance,…

— Joshua Reynolds

I’m more interested in a photography that is ‘unfinished’ - a photography that is suggestive and can trigger a conversation or dialogue. There are…

— Paolo Pellegrin

You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.

— Scott Moir

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...

— John Szarkowski

“My mother holds these markers all over town; people who owe her a favour. It might be a peek into planning documents, or preferential…

— I.M. Millennial

“I put two bricks side by side in the grass and called it a race. Neither one moved so I renamed it a tie.…

— Jarod Kintz

To photograph is to confer importance.

— Susan Sontag

We are judged, not by the photographs we take, but by the photographs we show.

— Ted Grant