Art photography Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and…

— Susan Sontag

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

— Susan Sontag

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt…

— Susan Sontag

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things…

— Marcel Proust

A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.

— Rene Burri

There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and…

— Sebastiao Salgado

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

— Ansel Adams

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it…

— John Berger

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

There are situations that refuse to be photographed. But at other times nothing will stop me, because I know my pictures will not shout…

— Mario Giacomelli