Composition Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

“I’ve started to question if the flaws on the finished photograph aren’t an integral part of the portrait: soft focus, underexposure, poorly applied emulsion,…

— Elizabeth Ross

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a dark room...So if you see darkness in your life be reassured that a beautiful picture is…

— Nishan Panwar

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers of our…

— B.E. Scully

Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The…

— Bernd Becher

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

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in…

— Ezra Pound

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over…

— Myfanwy Pavelic

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

— Margaret Atwood