Art Quote by Lisette Model

Photography is the easiest medium with which to be merely competent. Almost anybody can be competent. It's the hardest medium in which to have…

— Chuck Close

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

— Chuck Close

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

— Jerry Saltz

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

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

— Jay Maisel

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument…

— Eve Arnold

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot…

— Elliott Erwitt

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

— Man Ray

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

— Annie Leibovitz

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

— Robert Heinecken

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

— Eve Arnold