Artistic Quote by Piet Zwart

“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

The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely…

— Paul Strand

Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.

— Clarence John Laughlin

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces.…

— Olafur Eliasson

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings…

— Helmut Gernsheim

A photograph can look any way.

— Garry Winogrand

The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing and appreciating, seeing things…

— Bill Atkinson

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