Eye Quote by Leon Levinstein

A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see

— Leon Levinstein

For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances…

— Alfredo Jaar

What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual…

— Alexey Brodovitch

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

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 photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman

The difference in 'seeing' between the eye and the lens should make it obvious that a photographer who merely points his camera at an…

— Andreas Feininger

Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of…

— Trevor Paglen

I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had…

— Saul Leiter

Seeing is not enough; you have to feel what you photograph

— Andre Kertesz

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

A photographer who wants to see…must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put…

— Freeman Patterson