Able Quote by Harry Callahan

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

— Emmet Gowin

Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will…

— Michael Kenna

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

— Gordon Parks

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

— Mary Ellen Mark

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the…

— Sam Abell

If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try…

— Bill Brandt

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

— Minor White

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

— Alec Soth

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

— Diane Arbus

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not…

— Frans Lanting

One day the photograph is going to become even more important than it is now… But I am not particularly an advocate of the…

— Robert Smithson