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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

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The photographer must…

— Henri Matisse

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

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

— Lisa Kristine

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon…

— Andre Bazin

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…

— Wendy Beckett

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared…

— Van Deren Coke

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

— Ali Smith

Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our…

— Susan Sontag

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting…

— Robert Adams