Alive Quote by Joel Meyerowitz

Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is a system…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt

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 is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

— Steven Pinker

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

— Elliott Erwitt

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant…

— Susan Sontag

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until…

— Elliott Erwitt