Courses Quote by Mario Giacomelli

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

— Clarence John Laughlin

“The word ‘photography’ literally means “writing with light.”

— Mary E. Foster

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

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.

— Douglas Huebler

To speak technically photography is the art of writing with light. But if I want to think about it more philosophically , I can…

— Gerardo Suter

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

— John Paul Caponigro

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology....”

— Prerna Sharma

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees… and enables the fortunate…

— George Eastman