Analysis Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

— David Burnett

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

The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.

— Henry Holmes Smith

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of…

— Wynn Bullock

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception…

— John Constable

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face…

— Duane Michals

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

— William Mortensen

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

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

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

— Robert Motherwell