Accepting Quote by John Szarkowski

Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can…

— Edward Steichen

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

— Lisette Model

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

— Chuck Close

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.

— Mario Giacomelli

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

— Anne Geddes

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in…

— John Szarkowski

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

— Martin Parr

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

— Jerry Saltz

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would…

— Ansel Adams

I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time,…

— Alexander Rodchenko

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and…

— Gisele Freund