Believe Quote by Harry Callahan

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit…

— Harry Callahan

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or…

— Joel Meyerowitz

One of the things that I most believe in is the compose and wait philosophy of photography. It’s a very satisfying, almost spiritual way…

— Sam Abell

To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often…

— Todd Hido

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things…

— Bill Atkinson

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

— Leonard Freed

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look…

— William Klein

And that desire-the strong desire to take pictures-is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working…

— Sam Abell

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and…

— Lee Friedlander