Bottom Quote by John Szarkowski

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

— Elliott Erwitt

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

— David Doubilet

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

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

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 does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for…

— Gisele Freund

You cannot explain the whole world in one photograph. Photography pretends. You can see everything that's in front of the camera, but there's always…

— Thomas Ruff

Photography [can] be seen as a system of representation that you bring to bear on other systems.

— Martha Rosler

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality…

— Charles Sheeler