Buttons Quote by Michael Langford

Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the…

— Charles Negre

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture…

— Henri Matisse

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality…

— Charles Sheeler

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of…

— John Szarkowski

Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the…

— Gerhard Richter

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave…

— Alec Soth

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are.

— David Doubilet

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want…

— Cole Sprouse

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

— Ruth Bernhard

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do…

— Elliott Erwitt