Advantage Quote by John Constable

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

The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of…

— Walker Evans

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 first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man…

— Henry Ward Beecher

My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty that, in…

— Tod Papageorge

Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is…

— Stuart Franklin

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

— Quentin Blake

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

— Harold Feinstein

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

— Joel-Peter Witkin

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

— Jay Maisel

“The sucess of your people pictures depends not so much on your mastery of f/stops and shutter speeds, as on the grace and wit…

— Jeff Wignall

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

— Steve McCurry