Art Quote by Greig Fraser

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil…

— David Hockney

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a…

— Franz Kafka

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty…

— Raoul Hausmann

When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should…

— Pablo Picasso

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it…

— Gisele Freund

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments,…

— Brett Weston

Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on…

— Jack Dykinga

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to…

— Walker Evans

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes…

— Michael Snow

It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his…

— Bill Brandt

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast…

— Conrad Hall