Giving Quote by Paul Valery

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that…

— Frank Gohlke

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more…

— Alison Jackson

Photography can be a way into worlds and memories that words sometimes fail to convey.

— Stacy Martin

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can…

— H. G. Wells

Being a photographer is making people look at what I want them to look at.

— Ruth Orkin

The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt…

— Vilem Flusser

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

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the…

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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

— Rineke Dijkstra

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a…

— Eugene Richards

There are photographers who don't really engage with their subject. It's a really unfortunate phrase, but they take their photo and they leave with…

— Sebastian Junger