Concerned Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud…

— Anton Yelchin

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult…

— Ansel Adams

Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond…

— Ansel Adams

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

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

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore,…

— Susan Sontag

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