Ambiguity Quote by Larry Sultan

If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to have some…

— Sally Mann

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

— Guy Le Querrec

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her.

— Berenice Abbott

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

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

— Mario Testino

“Sameness... the new ‘unique’. So photographers seem to be flocking toward simple, easy to understand ‘solutions’ instead of flocking toward hard work, development of…

— Don Giannatti

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen

Approaching subject matter to photograph is like meeting a person and beginning a conversation. How does one know ahead of time where that will…

— Michael Kenna

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos…

— Arthur Tress

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

I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions…

— Elad Lassry