Fine Quote by Ralph Steiner

“The difference between an amateur and professional photographer is the size of the waste basket”

— Chris Marquardt

As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect…

— Margaret Bourke-White

The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography…

— Trevor Paglen

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

— Ansel Adams

There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel…

— Stuart Franklin

“We photographers are a despicable bunch. We take photographs. The best of us do not show people as they wish to be seen, instead,…

— Waswo X. Waswo

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the…

— Ernst Haas

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

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

— Jacob Collins

I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first…

— Rachel Morrison

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

— Martin Parr