Discovery Quote by Helmut Gernsheim

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial…

— Paul Strand

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP,…

— Lisette Model

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to…

— Justine Kurland

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you…

— Dorothea Lange

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

— Luc Delahaye

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with…

— Duane Michals

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

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody…

— Larry Clark

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make…

— Galen Rowell

Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!

— Salvador Dali