Art Quote by Henri Matisse

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as…

— Henri Matisse

No photographer should be blamed when, instead of capturing reality, he tries to show things he has seen only in his imagination. Photography is…

— Philippe Halsman

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

A photographer who does not know how to translate his feelings and ideas into a graphically satisfactory form is bound to produce ineffective photographs,…

— Andreas Feininger

It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should…

— David Hurn

Photography isn't for people to take pictures of beautiful people or things. It's for capturing raw emotions in the eyes of the beautiful people…

— Jillian Rowe

I think that the photographer must completely control his picture and bring to it all his personality, and in this area most photographs never…

— Duane Michals

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises…

— Brassai

There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will…

— Michael Kenna

What is important is that our optical awareness rids itself of classical notions of beauty and opens itself more and more to the beauty…

— Raoul Hausmann

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the…

— Sid Grossman