Creativity Quote by Petra Collins

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

— Arnold Newman

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world…

— Anonymous

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

— Ansel Adams

Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it…

— Joan Fontcuberta

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can…

— Michael Langford

... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

“Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.”

— Mark Denman

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

— Wright Morris

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

— Garry Winogrand

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

— M. C. Escher