Benefits Quote by John Divola

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography…

— Minor White

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners.…

— Imogen Cunningham

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry.…

— Trevor Paglen

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

— Martin Parr

Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

— Garry Winogrand

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art…

— Ansel Adams

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

— William Albert Allard

It's about time we started to take photography seriously and treat it as a hobby.

— 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

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to…

— Susan Sontag

My relationship to photography growing up was like, the idea of photojournalism or newspapers - it's far less art or marketing. It was more…

— RaMell Ross