Aesthetic Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often…

— Aaron Scharf

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of…

— Edward Steichen

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

— Ansel Adams

Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know,…

— Emmet Gowin

The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is…

— Edward Weston

At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock…

— Galen Rowell

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically]…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

— Ansel Adams

Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin