Analysis Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

— David Burnett

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

— Henry Holmes Smith

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

Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their…

— Susan Sontag

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 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

One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of…

— Henry Fox Talbot

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

Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised,…

— Susan Sontag

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

— Robert Motherwell