Bears Quote by James Welling

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

— August Sander

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

— Alberto Giacometti

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism…

— John Knoll

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

— Robert Henri

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

— M. C. Escher

A photo is a creation.

— Eva Herzigova

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not captivated by…

— Doug Aitken

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

— Errol Morris

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks…

— Sara Blakely

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an…

— John Updike

Making photographs can be a way for me to bring something up and into consciousness, something either shared or individual.

— Torbjørn Rødland