Complexity Quote by John Szarkowski

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

— Anne Geddes

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

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 thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately informative, and…

— John Szarkowski

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

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

— Garry Winogrand

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not…

— Van Deren Coke

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free…

— Paul Caponigro

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

— Lisette Model

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

— Martin Parr

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of…

— William Albert Allard

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen