Innovation Quote by John Berger

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic”

— Susan Wiggs

To me photography functions as a fossilization of time.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full…

— Nikolay Semyonov

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

Photography is a form of time travel.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the…

— John Pfahl

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components…

— David Maisel

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

— Bill Jay

Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so…

— Clement Greenberg