Candor Quote by Richard Avedon

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

“Photography is the power of observation,and not the application of technology....”

— Prerna Sharma

[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement…

— Walter Benjamin

Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.

— Paul Strand

Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held anywhere ...

— John Szarkowski

The question of the social uses of photography opens out into the very largest issues of the self, of the relationship to community, to…

— Susan Sontag

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

— Edward Steichen

“Photography is basically an art of arranging the angles!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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