Degrees Quote by Minor White

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to…

— Ansel Adams

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the…

— Edward Steichen

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

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

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

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

[Photography] remains servile to a thoughtless vision of the world... As the term snapshot suggests, photography seizes the moment and exhibits it.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it…

— Beaumont Newhall

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give,…

— Sebastiao Salgado

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises…

— Brassai

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

— Ansel Adams