Eye Quote by Leon Levinstein

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don’t see-see only what they…

— Leon Levinstein

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

— Wolf Blitzer

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there…

— Dorothea Lange

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It…

— Irving Penn

What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from…

— Garry Winogrand

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't…

— Richard Avedon

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story.…

— Teju Cole

A good photograph is like a good hound dog, dumb, but eloquent.

— Eugene Atget

I have been a photographer all my life…and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more…

— Ralph Gibson

“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if the girl…

— Richard Kern

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

— Robert Rauschenberg

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange