Able Quote by Nikolay Semyonov

The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.

— Keith Carter

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

— John Berger

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see…

— Ernst Haas

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are…

— Susan Sontag

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like…

— Julian Schnabel

Photography is Photography; And in it's purity and innocence is far too uniquely, valuable and beautiful to be spoilt by making it imitate something…

— Frederick H. Evans

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

— Conrad Hall

Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so…

— Willem Dafoe

The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed…

— John Szarkowski

The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

— Hansika Motwani

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

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

— Brett Weston