Consciousness Quote by Joan Fontcuberta

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for…

— George Santayana

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ...…

— Susan Sontag

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

— Edvard Munch

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by…

— Douglas Huebler

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by…

— Jack Welpott

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

What to me is anathema - a corpse-like, outmoded hangover - is for photography to be a bad excuse for another medium. ... Is…

— Berenice Abbott

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy…

— Eliot Porter