Art Quote by Minor White

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

— Lisette Model

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him…

— Brooks Atkinson

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

— Minor White

“For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of…

— Edward Steichen

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments,…

— Brett Weston

Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to…

— Edward Weston

“Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and…

— David Levi Strauss

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

— Brett Weston

“Photography is a magical kind of art that allows people to preserve time and moments, and to describe the world the way they see…

— Sahara Sanders

One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself.…

— Carl Mydans

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

— Harold Rosenberg