Evocative Quote by Mark Carwardine

...insight, vision, moments of revelation. During those rare moments something overtakes the man and he becomes the tool of a greater Force; the servant…

— Minor White

It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

— Alexey Brodovitch

It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even…

— Jack Gantos

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and…

— Susan Sontag

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination…

— Ruth Bernhard

“For me, a certain sign of quality or class in art is that when I read, see or listen to something, I suddenly get…

— Anonymous

The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life,…

— Paul Strand

“Imagination demands an image.”

— G.K. Chesterton

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

— Emmet Gowin

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that,…

— Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels.

— Ansel Adams