Concentration Quote by John Szarkowski

Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that…

— Frank Gohlke

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 must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness…

— Stephen Shore

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

— John Szarkowski

Photography is simply a function of noticing things.

— Elliott Erwitt

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

— Pierre Bourdieu

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of…

— John Szarkowski

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt…

— Vilem Flusser

Photography is a process

— Nigel McKain

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond…

— Ansel Adams